5. The Pharisees and the teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Your followers don’t follow the rules given to us by our great people who lived before us. Your followers eat their food with hands that are not clean. Why do they do this?”
6. Jesus answered, “You are all hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he spoke about you. Isaiah wrote,‘These people show honor to me with words.But their hearts are far from me.
7. Their worship of me is worthless.The things they teach are nothingbut human rules they have memorized.’ Isaiah 29:13
8. You have stopped following the commands of God. Now you only follow the teachings of men.”
9. Then Jesus said to them: “You think you are clever! You ignore the commands of God so that you can follow your own teachings!
10. Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother.’ Then Moses also said, ‘Anyone who says cruel things to his father or mother must be put to death.’
11. But you teach that a person can say to his 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 that person that he does not have to do anything for his father or mother.
13. So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think that it is more important to follow your own rules, which you teach people. And you do many things like that.”
14. Jesus called the people to him again. He said, “Every person should listen to me and understand what I am saying.
15. There is nothing a person puts into his body that makes him unclean. A person is made unclean by the things that come out of him.