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