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Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why don't Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?"
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He answered them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: These people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
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They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.
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Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men."
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He also said to them, "You completely invalidate God's command in order to maintain your tradition!
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For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.
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But you say, 'If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban ' " (that is, a gift [committed to the temple]),
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"you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
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You revoke God's word by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things."
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Summoning the crowd again, He told them, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:
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Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.