1Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus.
2They saw some of the disciples eating food. They had not washed their hands before they ate. The Pharisees said that was wrong.
3They and all the Jews keep the laws made by men. God did not give them those laws. They do not eat until they wash their hands very well.
4When they come from the market, they do not eat until they have washed themselves. They also keep many other laws such as washing cups, pots, brass pans, and beds.
5The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, `Why do your disciples not keep the law our fathers made? Why do they eat with hands that are not clean?'
6-7esus said to them, `Isaiah spoke the truth about you people! You are not true to yourselves! He wrote about you this way: "These people respect me with their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. They do not mean it in their hearts when they worship me. Their teachings are only words of men."
8`You do not keep the law of God, but you keep the laws made by people. Those laws are about washing pots and cups. You do many other things like that also.
9`You break God's law so that you can keep your own law.
10Moses said, "Respect your father and your mother. Anyone who says wrong things to his father or his mother will die."
11You say, "Tell your father or your mother that what you were going to give to them is Corban." (That means a gift to God.)
12So you stop him from doing anything for his father and mother.
13You make God's law to mean nothing so that you can keep your own laws. You do many other things like that also.'
14Then Jesus called the people to him again. He said, `Listen to me, all of you, and understand what I say.
15What goes into a person's mouth does not make him dirty. But what comes out of a person's mouth makes him dirty.
16Everyone who has ears to hear, listen!'
17Jesus left the people and went into a house. His disciples asked him the meaning of the story.
18He said, `Do you still not understand? Do you not know this? What goes into a person from the outside cannot make a person dirty.
19It does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and then it goes out of the body.' By saying this, Jesus meant that food does not make a person dirty.
20But he said, `What comes out of a person makes him dirty. 21,
21Here is what comes from the heart: wrong thoughts, all kinds of adultery, stealing, killing, wanting things that other people have, doing very wrong things, fooling people, breaking the law, jealousy, saying wrong things about people, being proud, being foolish.
22All these wrong things come from a person's heart and make him dirty.'
