thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”
for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!
But if this son has a son who sees all the sins that his father has done, considers, and does not do likewise,
Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.
So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.
then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders,
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”
Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!
I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth.