(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”
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?”
The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
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.
See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,