⁵And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their^f bread with unclean hands?” ⁶So he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their^g lips,

but their heart is far, far away from me.

⁷And they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’^h

⁸Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.”

⁹And he said to them, “You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keepⁱ your tradition. ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’^j and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die^k.’^l ¹¹But you say, ‘If a man says to his^m father or to hisⁿ mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received^o from me is corban”^p (that is, a gift to God), ¹²you no longer permit him to do anything for his^q father or his^r mother, ¹³thus^* making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”

Defilement from Within

¹⁴And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by^* going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”^s

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Footnotes

fLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
gLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
hA quotation from Isa 29:13
iSome manuscripts have “you can maintain”
jA quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
kLiterally “let him die the death”
lA quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9
mLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
nLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
oLiterally “you would have been benefited”
pA Hebrew term referring to something consecrated as a gift to God and thus not available for ordinary use
qLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
rLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“making void”) which is understood as result
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“going”) which is understood as means
sMost later manuscripts add v. 16, “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”