Mark 7:5–15

⁵then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands? ⁶But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. ⁷But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their teachings commandments of men. ⁸For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men to keep —washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do. ⁹And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep. ¹⁰For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die. ¹¹But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by… ¹²And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother; ¹³making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do. ¹⁴And having called again the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.