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1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
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1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
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2 "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
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2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
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3 He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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3 Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
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4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
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4 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
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5 But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'
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5 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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6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
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6 he is not to 'honor his father ' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
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7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
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8 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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8 " 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
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9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
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9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'"
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10 And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
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10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
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11 not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
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11 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.' "
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12 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
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12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
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13 He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
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13 He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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14 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
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14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
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15 But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
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15 Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."
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16 And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
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16 "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
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17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?
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17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
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18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man.
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18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'
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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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20 These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
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20 These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' "
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