WPNT(i)
1 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem approached Jesus saying:
2 “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.”
3 So in answer He said to them: “Why do you even transgress the commandment of God through your tradition?
4 For God commanded saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death’.
5 But you say: ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever you might be profited by me is a gift to God ”—
6 then he must not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have nullified the commandment of God through your tradition.
7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying:
8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.
9 But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’.”
10 Then summoning the crowd He said to them: “Hear and understand.
11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles the man, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles the man.”
12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do you know that upon hearing this saying the Pharisees were offended?”
13 But in answer He said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us”.
16 So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding?
17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer?
18 But the things coming out of the mouth actually come from the heart; those are the things that defile the man.
19 Because out of the heart proceed malignant thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
20 These are the things that defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”