5. Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands? ”
6. He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: These people honor Me with their lips,but their heart is far from Me.
7. They worship Me in vain,teaching as doctrines the commands of men.
8. Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men.”
9. He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition!
10. For Moses said:Honor your father and your mother; andWhoever speaks evil of father or mothermust be put to death.
11. But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’ ” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),
12. “you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
13. You revoke God’s word by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”
14. Summoning the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: