Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

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

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”