7. Their worship of me is empty since they teach instructions that are human words.
8. You ignore God’s commandment while holding on to rules created by humans and handed down to you."
9. Jesus continued, "Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God’s commandment in order to establish these rules.
10. Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.
11. But you say, ‘If you tell your father or mother, "Everything I’m expected to contribute to you is corban (that is, a gift I’m giving to God),"
12. then you are no longer required to care for your father or mother.’
13. In this way you do away with God’s word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that."
14. Then Jesus called the crowd again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15. Nothing outside of a person can enter and contaminate a person in God’s sight; rather, the things that come out of a person contaminate the person."
17. After leaving the crowd, he entered a house where his disciples asked him about that riddle.
18. He said to them, "Don’t you understand either? Don’t you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?