³ But the One, having responded, said to them, “For what reason indeed are you transgressing the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God said [in Ex 20:12]: ‘Be honoring your father and your mother’, and [in Ex 21:17] ‘Let the one speaking-evil-of father or mother come-to-an-end^[a] by a death’. ⁵ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or his mother: “Whatever you might be benefitted from me is a gift^[b] [to God]” ⁶ shall by-no-means honor^[c] his father’. And you nullified^[d] the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly concerning you, saying [in Isa 29:13]: ⁸ ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from Me. ⁹ But they are worshiping Me in-vain^[e]— teaching as teachings the commandments of humans’”. ¹⁰ And having summoned the crowd, He said to them, “Listen and understand. ¹¹ The thing entering into the mouth does not defile^[f] the person. But the thing proceeding out of the mouth— this defiles the person”.