8. These people draw near Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me.
9. Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men. [Isa. 29:13.]
10. And Jesus called the people to Him and said to them, Listen and grasp and comprehend this:
11. It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him].
12. Then the disciples came and said to Him, Do You know that the Pharisees were displeased and offended and indignant when they heard this saying?