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Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
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they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
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and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
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And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?"
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And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, '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.'
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You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men."
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And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!