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Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
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"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
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He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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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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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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So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
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You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
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'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"