⁵So the Pharisees and the teachers of the law questioned Jesus. “Why don’t your disciples live by what the elders teach?” they asked. “Why do they eat their food with ‘unclean’ hands?”

⁶He replied, “Isaiah was right. He prophesied about you people who pretend to be good. He said,

“ ‘These people honor me by what they say.

But their hearts are far away from me.

⁷Their worship doesn’t mean anything to me.

They teach nothing but human rules.’

⁸You have let go of God’s commands. And you are holding on to the teachings that men have made up.”

⁹Jesus then said to them, “You have a fine way of setting aside God’s commands! You do this so you can follow your own teachings. ¹⁰Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother.’ He also said, ‘If anyone calls down a curse on his father or mother, he will be put to death.’ ¹¹But you allow people to say to their parents, ‘Any help you might have received from us is Corban.’ (Corban means ‘a gift set apart for God.’) ¹²So you no longer let them do anything for their parents. ¹³You make the word of God useless by putting your own teachings in its place. And you do many things like that.”

¹⁴Again Jesus called the crowd to him. He said, “Listen to me, everyone. Understand this.

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