3. Jesus answered:Why do you disobey God and follow your own teaching?
4. Didn't God command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents?
5. But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they have has been offered to God.
6. Is this any way to show respect to your parents? You ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching.
7. And you are nothing but show-offs! Isaiah the prophet was right when he wrote that God had said,
8. “All of you praise mewith your words,but you never reallythink about me.
9. It is useless for youto worship me,when you teach rulesmade up by humans.”
10. Jesus called the crowd together and said, “Pay attention and try to understand what I mean.
11. The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”
12. Then his disciples came over to him and asked, “Do you know that you insulted the Pharisees by what you said?”
13. Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.
14. Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch.”
15. Peter replied, “What did you mean when you talked about the things that make people unclean?”