8. You have stopped following God’s commands, preferring instead the man-made rules you got from others.”
9. Then he said, “You show great skill in avoiding the commands of God so that you can follow your own teachings!
10. Moses said, ‘You must respect your father and mother.’ He also said, ‘Whoever says anything bad to their father or mother must be killed.’
11. But you teach that people can say to their father or mother, ‘I have something I could use to help you, but I will not use it for you. I will give it to God.’
12. You are telling people that they do not have to do anything for their father or mother.
13. So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think it is more important to follow those traditions you have, which you pass on to others. And you do many things like that.”
14. Jesus called the people to him again. He said, “Everyone should listen to me and understand what I am saying.
15. There is nothing people can put in their mouth that will make them wrong. People are made wrong by what comes from inside them.”