15Then^v Jesus was approached by Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem, who asked,^w ²“Why do your disciples^x break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”^A^a

³He answered them, “Why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition? ⁴For God said:^B Honor your father and your mother;^C^b and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.^D^c ⁵But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,” ⁶he does not have to honor his father.’^E In this way, you have nullified the word of God^F because of your tradition. ⁷Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

⁸This people^G honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

⁹They worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines human commands.”^d

DEFILEMENT IS FROM WITHIN

¹⁰Summoning the crowd, he told them, “Listen and understand: ¹¹It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles^e a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.”^f

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Footnotes

A eat bread eat a meal
BOther read commanded, saying
EOther read then he does not have to honor his father or mother
FOther read commandment
GOther add draw near to me with their mouths, and

Cross references

v Mk 7:1–23
w Mk 3:22; Jn 1:19
x Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16
a Lk 11:38; Gl 1:14; Col 2:8; Heb 11:2
C Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16
b Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16; Eph 6:2
D Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9
c Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9
d Is 29:13
e Mt 15:18; Mk 7:15; Ac 21:28; Heb 9:13
f Ac 10:14–15; 1Tm 4:3