11. But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’
12. In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.
13. And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
14. Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand.
15. It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”
17. Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.