Mark 7:5-13

5The Pharisees and the experts in Moses’ Teachings asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples follow the traditions taught by our ancestors? They are unclean because they don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

6Jesus told them, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites in Scripture: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

7Their worship of me is pointless, because their teachings are rules made by humans.’

8“You abandon the commandments of God to follow human traditions.”

9He added, “You have no trouble rejecting the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions!

10For example, Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother must be put to death.’

11But you say, ‘If a person tells his father or mother that whatever he might have used to help them is corban (that is, an offering to God),

12he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.’

13Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of God’s word. And you do many other things like that.”