Matthew 15:2-5

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? ³ For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answering said, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God thro' your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, Honour thy father and mother: and He that revileth father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵ But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me:

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Mark 7:2; Mark 7:5; Genesis 1:14; Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:20-23; 1 Peter 1:18
tradition.Tradition, in Latin {traditio,} from {trado,} I deliver, hand down, exactly agreeing with the original [paradosis,] from [paradidomi,] I deliver, transmit. Among the Jews it signifies what is called oral law, which they say has been successively handed down from Moses, through every generation, to Judah the Holy, who compiled and digested it into the Mishneh, to explain which the two Gemaras, or Talmuds, called the Jerusalem and Babylonish, were composed. Of the estimation in which these were held by the Jews, the following may serve as an example: "The words of the Scribes are lovely beyond the words of the law, for the words of the law are weighty and light, but the words of the Scribes are all weighty."