5. But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or his mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received from me is a gift to God,”
6. need not honor his father,’ and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7. Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,
8. ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,
9. and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
10. And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Hear and understand:
11. It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.”
12. Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
13. And he answered and said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
14. Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15. But Peter answered and said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”