’This people honoreth me with their lips,
    But their heart is far from me. 
    But in vain do they worship me,
    Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.’

“Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”

And he said unto them, “Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.  For Moses said, ’Honor thy father and thy mother;’ and, ’He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death;’ but ye say, ’If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban,’ that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered:  and many such like things ye do.”

And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, “Hear me all of you, and understand:  there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.”

Then came the disciples, and said unto him, “Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

But he answered and said, “Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.  Let them alone:  they are blind guides.  And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.”

And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

And he saith unto them, “Are ye also even yet without understanding?  Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him; because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught?”

This he said, making all meats clean.  And he said, “That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetings, wickedness, deceit, false witness, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:  all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.”

THE PLOT OF THE PHARISEES.

And it came to pass on a sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught:  and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.  And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had his hand withered, “Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.”

And he arose and stood forth.  And Jesus said unto them, “I ask you, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life or to destroy it?  What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?  How much then is a man of more value than a sheep!  Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.”