5. So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
6. He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me;
7. In vain do they worship me,teaching as doctrines human precepts.’
8. You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
9. He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!
10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother shall die.’
11. Yet you say, ‘If a person says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban”’ (meaning, dedicated to God),
12. you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother.
13. You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.”
14. He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
15. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” [