You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.”
for instruction and testimony?” Surely, those who speak like this are the ones for whom there is no dawn.
But, in turn, if he begets a son who sees all the sins his father commits, yet fears and does not imitate him—
Though I write for him my many instructions, they are considered like a stranger’s.
need not honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother.
He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
(For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders.
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!
and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.