thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”
To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.
“But if this man begets a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, and fears, and does not do likewise,
Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
instead of giving heed to Jewish myths or to commands of men who reject the truth.