thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,
he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?
“Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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