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And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition.
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For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'
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But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]),
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you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,
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[thus] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar [things] such as this."
Defilement from Within
14 And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, "Listen to me, all [of you], and understand:
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There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him [by] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person."
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And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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And he said to them, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything [that is] outside that goes into a person [is] not able to defile him?
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For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine"--[thus] declaring all foods clean.