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No one could keep the sabbath or celebrate the traditional feasts, nor even admit to being a Jew.
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Do not reject the tradition of the elders which they have heard from their ancestors; For from it you will learn how to answer when the need arises.
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Chapter 15
The Tradition of the Elders. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
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“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash [their] hands when they eat a meal.”
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He said to them in reply, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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need not honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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Chapter 7
The Tradition of the Elders. Now when the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,
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(For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders.
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And on coming from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles [and beds].)
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So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
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You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
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He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!
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You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.”
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IV. Problems in Liturgical Assemblies
I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you.
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Tradition of the Institution. For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread,
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and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
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See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ.
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Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
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Neglect of Work. We instruct you, brothers, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us.