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- Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
- "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
- Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
- For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
- But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'
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- he is not to 'honor his father' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
- You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
- " 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
- They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'"
- Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
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- What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "
- Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
- He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
- Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
- Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."
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- "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
- "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
- But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'
- For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
- These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' "
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