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Then, there come unto Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and Scribes, saying -

Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands, when they eat bread!

But, he, answering, said unto them - Wherefore do, ye also, transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

For, God, said - Honour thy father and thy mother, and - He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die!

But, ye, say - Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother - A gift! Whatsoever, out of me, thou mightest be profited,

in nowise, shall honour his father or his mother - and so ye have cancelled, the word of God, for the sake of your, tradition.

Hypocrites! well prophesied concerning you, Isaiah, saying -

This people, with the lips, do, honour, me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me;

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.