¹¹ How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? ^(A)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ^12 (B)Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of ^(C)the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Traditions and Commandments

15 ^(A)Then Pharisees and ^(B)scribes came to Jesus ^(C)from Jerusalem and said, ^2 (D)“Why do your disciples break ^(E)the tradition of the elders? ^(F)For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” ³ He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, ^(G)‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ^(H)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ ⁵ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”^{[a] 6} he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have ^(I)made void the word^[b] of God. ^7 (J)You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

⁶ And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you ^(A)hypocrites, as it is written,

⁸ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

⁹ And he said to them, “You have a fine way of ^(D)rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said, ^(E)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ^(F)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ ¹¹ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)^[a]— ¹² then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³ thus ^(G)making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”