^{2 Ref} And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

^{3 Ref} Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

^{4 Ref} And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

^{5 Ref} And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

^{6 Ref} And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

^{7 Ref} But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

^{8 Ref} For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

^{9 Ref} And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

^{10 Ref} For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

^{11 Ref} But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

¹² You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

^{13 Ref} Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.