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

³⁸ And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

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

⁵ 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?

²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

²¹ Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

²² (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

²³ These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

¹⁸ Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: