7. It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were God's laws!’
8. “You put aside God's command and obey human teachings.”
9. And Jesus continued, “You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
10. For Moses commanded, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death.’
11. But you teach that if a person has something he could use to help his father or mother, but says, ‘This is Corban’ (which means, it belongs to God),
12. he is excused from helping his father or mother.
13. In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”
14. Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15. There is nothing that goes into a person from the outside which can make him ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.”
17. When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying.
18. “You are no more intelligent than the others,” Jesus said to them. “Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can really make him unclean,