15Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, ²“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat a meal.”^a ³So he answered and^* said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition? ⁴For God said, ‘Honor your^* father and your^* mother,’^b and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die^c.’^d ⁵But you say, ‘Whoever says to his^* father or his^* mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received^e from me is a gift to God,” ⁶need not honor his father,’^f and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,

⁸‘This people honors me with their^* lips,

but their heart is far, far away from me,

⁹and they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”^g

Defilement from Within

¹⁰And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Hear and understand: ¹¹It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.”

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Footnotes

aLiterally “bread”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
bA quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
cLiterally “let him die the death”
dA quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
eLiterally “you would have been benefited”
fMost later manuscripts add “or his mother”
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
gA quotation from Isa 29:13