1. Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3. And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4. For God said, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
5. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God;
6. he shall not honour his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
7. Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8. This people honoureth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.
9. But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
10. And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: