Mark 7:3-13

Bishops(i) 3 For the pharisees and all the Iewes, except they wasshe their handes oft, eate not, obseruing the traditions of ye elders 4 And [when they come] from the market, except they wasshe, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue [as] the wasshyng of cuppes and pottes, and brasen vessels, and of tables 5 Then asked hym the pharisees and scribes: Why walke not thy disciples accordyng to the traditio of the elders, but eate bread with vnwasshen handes 6 He aunswered, and sayde vnto them, that Esaias hath prophesied well of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoreth me with their lippes, but their heart is farre from me 7 Howebeit, in vayne do they worship me, teachyng doctrines, the commaundementes of men 8 For ye laye the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of me: as the wasshing of pottes & cuppes. And many other such like thinges ye do 9 And he sayde vnto them: Well, ye cast asyde the commaundement of God, to mayntayne your owne tradition 10 For Moyses sayde, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, who so curseth father or mother, let him dye the death 11 But ye say, yf a man shall say to father or mother Corban (that is, by the gyft) that [is offred] of me, thou shalt be helped 12 And so ye suffer hym no more to do ought for his father or his mother 13 And make the worde of God of none effect, through your tradition, which ye haue ordeyned. And many such thinges do ye