Matthew 15

¹Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

²Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

³And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

⁴For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

⁵But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

⁶There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

⁷You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

⁸These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁹But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

¹⁰And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

¹¹Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

¹²Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

¹³But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.