Matthew 15:1-6

1 Then there came to Jesus a party of Pharisees and Scribes from Jerusalem, who inquired,
2 "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"
3 "Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?
4 For God said, `Honour thy father and thy mother'; and `Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';
5 but you--this is what you say: `If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me--
6 he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.
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