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But you say, `If anyone says to his father or mother, "I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,"
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then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.' Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God!
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You hypocrites! Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you,
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`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.'"
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Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand this!
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What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!"
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The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?"
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He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit."
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Kefa said to him, "Explain the parable to us."