⁴ For God commanded, saying, ^(A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ^(B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ ⁵ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, ^(C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— ⁶ then he need not honor his father ^[a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the ^[b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

² And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, and on which you ^(A)put a curse, even saying it in my ears—here is the silver with me; I took it.”

And his mother said, ^(B)“May you be blessed by the Lord, my son!”