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Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
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Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
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And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
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For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.
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But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;
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There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
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You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
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These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.