Mark 7:4-13

Anderson(i) 4 and when they come from the market, they do not eat, unless they immerse themselves. And there are many other things, which they have received to hold, as the immersion of cups and pitchers and brazen vessels and beds:) 5 then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands? 6 He answered and said to them: "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 In vain do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men. 8 For, neglecting the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the immersion of pitchers and cups; and many other things like these you do. 9 And he said to them: Well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, He that curses father or mother shall surely be put to death. 11 But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, What ever of mine might benefit you, is Corban, (which means, a gift,) 12 you no longer suffer him to do any thing for his father or mother, 13 making the word of God of no effect by your tradition, which you have delivered; and many things like these you do.