3Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
4And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
5And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?
6And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
8For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
9And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
