Riverside(i)
1 THEN scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
2 "Why do your disciples violate the tradition of our forefathers? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."
3 He answered them, "And why do you violate the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
4 For God said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'If any one speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
5 But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or to his mother, Whatever benefit you get from me is now dedicated to God,
6 he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So you have nullified the command of God for the sake of your tradition.
7 You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said,
8 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
9 In vain they worship me while they teach as precepts the commands of men.' "
10 Calling the crowd to him he said to them, "Hear and understand.
11 Not what enters the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth — that defiles a man."
12 Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked when they heard what you said?"
13 He replied, "Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
14 Beware of them. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch."
15 Peter said, "Explain to us your figure."
16 Jesus answered, "Are even you without insight?
17 Do you not know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is cast out into the sewer?
18 But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and they defile the man.
19 For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words.
20 These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."