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and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
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and [when they come] from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
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And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
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And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
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But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
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Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
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And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
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For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
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but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
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ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;