ed to observe, as
the washings of cups, and pots, and vessels of brass, and couches.
(5)Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, Why do not thy
disciples walk conformable to the tradition of the elders, but eat
bread with unwashed hands? (6)Then he answering said to them, Well did
Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written[12], "This
people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
(7)Now vainly do they worship me, while teaching doctrines the
commandments of men." (8)For leaving the command of God, ye adhere to
the tradition of men, the washings of pots and cups; and many other
such like things ye practise. (9)And he said to them, Strangely do ye
make void the command of God, that ye may observe your tradition.
(10)For Moses said[13], "Honour thy father and thy mother:" and "he
that curseth father or mother, let him assuredly be put to death[14]."
(11)But ye affirm, If a man say to his father or mother, it is Corban
(that is, a gift), which otherwise might have been advantageous to thee
from me; (12)then ye permit him no more to do any thing for his father,
or his mother; (13)abrogating the word of God by the tradition, which
ye have transmitted down; and many such like things ye do.

(14)And he called to him all the multitude, and said unto them, hear me
all of you, and understand. (15)There is nothing from without a man,
that entering into him, can make him unclean: but the things which come
out from him, these are the things which make a man unclean. (16)If any
man hath ears to hear, let him hear. (17)And when he was come into the
house from the multitude, his disciples asked him concerning the
parable. (18)And he saith to them, Are ye also so defective of
intelligence? Do you not consider, that every thing from without that
entereth into a man, cannot make him unclean? (19)because it entereth
not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the vault,
carrying off all the impurities of the food. (20)But, said he, what
cometh out of a man, that makes a man unclean. (21)For from within out
of the heart of men proceed wicked reasonings, adulteries, whoredoms,
murders, (22)thefts, inordinate cravings, mischievous actions, knavery,
lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly: (23)all these wicked
things come from within, and render a person unclean.

(24)And rising, he departed thence into the confines of Tyre and Sidon;
and entering into a house, desired that no m