^{1 Ref} Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

^{2 Ref} Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

^{3 Ref} And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

^{4 Ref} For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

^{5 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 given to God;

^{6 Ref} There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

^{7 Ref} You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

^{8 Ref} These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

^{9 Ref} But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

^{10 Ref} And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

^{11 Ref} Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

^{12 Ref} Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

^{13 Ref} But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

^{14 Ref} Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

^{15 Ref} Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

^{16 Ref} And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

^{17 Ref} Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

^{18 Ref} But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.

^{19 Ref} For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

^{20 Ref} These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.