Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produc
he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands cer
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not i