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The P'rushim and some of the Torah-teachers who had come from Yerushalayim gathered together with Yeshua
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and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n'tilat-yadayim.
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(For the P'rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.
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Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)
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The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"
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Yeshua answered them, "Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites -- as it is written, `These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
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Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'