Bible Verses

The worship they offer me is worthless, Teaching as doctrines only human precepts. 

Jesus answered: “You shallow people! How well Isaiah prophesied about you when he wrote: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 

So the Pharisees and the teachers of the law asked him: “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders, but eat with unclean hands?”

Nor do they eat anything when they come from the market without first rinsing themselves. And they observe many other traditions as well; for example, the ritual washing of cups, pots, and plates. 

 Now the Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews, never eat without washing their hands because they follow the tradition passed down from their ancestors. 

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their meal with unwashed hands, meaning they did not wash them. 

On Tradition One day, the Pharisees gathered around Jesus, along with some teachers of the law who had just arrived from Jerusalem.

and wherever he went—whether to villages, towns, or farms—they laid the sick in the marketplace and begged him to let them touch just the fringe of his cloak. And everyone who touched him was healed. 

and ran to spread the news throughout the countryside. Wherever he was, they brought the sick lying on their mats to him; 

As soon as they landed, people recognized Jesus