15 <\/strong>Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 <\/sup>\u201cWhy do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don\u2019t wash their hands before they eat!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus replied,\u00a0\u201cAnd why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?\u00a04\u00a0<\/sup>For God said, \u2018Honor your father and mother\u2019\u00a0and \u2018Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.\u2019\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is \u2018devoted to God,\u2019\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>they are not to \u2018honor their father or mother\u2019 with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8\u00a0<\/sup>\u201c\u2018These people honor me with their lips, 10\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus called the crowd to him and said,\u00a0\u201cListen and understand.\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>What goes into someone\u2019s mouth does not defile them,\u00a0but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 <\/sup>Then the disciples came to him and asked, \u201cDo you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13\u00a0<\/sup>He replied,\u00a0\u201cEvery plant that my heavenly Father has not planted\u00a0will be pulled up by the roots.\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>Leave them; they are blind guides.\u00a0If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15 <\/sup>Peter said, \u201cExplain the parable to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAre you still so dull?\u201d\u00a0Jesus asked them.\u00a017\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cDon\u2019t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>But the things that come out of a person\u2019s mouth come from the heart,\u00a0and these defile them.\u00a019\u00a0<\/sup>For out of the heart come evil thoughts\u2014murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.\u00a020\u00a0<\/sup>These are what defile a person;\u00a0but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 15 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 \u201cWhy do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don\u2019t wash their hands before they eat!\u201d 3\u00a0Jesus replied,\u00a0\u201cAnd why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?\u00a04\u00a0For God said, \u2018Honor your father and mother\u2019\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but their hearts are far from me.
9\u00a0<\/sup>They worship me in vain;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their teachings are merely human rules.<\/mark>\\’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n