5. But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”
6. he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the wordof God.
7. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8. “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
9. in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
10. And he called the people to him and 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. He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
14. Let them alone; they are blind guides.And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”