He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.