1. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
2. “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat a meal.”
3. So he answered and said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4. For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die.’
5. But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or his mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received from me is a gift to God,”
6. need not honor his father,’ and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7. Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,
8. ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,
9. and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
10. And summoning the crowd, he 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.”