TIME. _Six months_. § 67. Our Lord justifies his Disciples for eating with unwashen hands. Pharisaic traditions. _Capernaum_. Matthew. Mark. CH. XV. 1-20. CH. VII. 1-23. Then came to Jesus scribes and Then came together unto him Pharisees, which were of the Pharisees, and certain of Jerusalem, saying, the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 Why do thy disciples 2 And when they saw some of transgress the tradition of his disciples eat bread with the elders?(183) for they wash defiled (that is to say, with not their hands when they eat unwashen) hands, they found bread. fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash _their_ hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And _when they come_ from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and tables.(184) 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 3 But he answered and said 6 He answered and said unto unto them, Why do ye also them, Well hath Esaias transgress the commandment of prophesied of you hypocrites, God by your tradition? as it is written, This people honoureth me with _their_ lips, but their heart is far from me. 4 For God commanded,(185) 7 Howbeit, in vain do they saying, Honour thy father and worship me, teaching _for_ mother: and, He that curseth doctrines the commandments of father or mother, let him die men. the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall 8 For, laying aside the say to _his_ father or _his_ commandment of God, ye hold mother, _It is_ a gift, by the tradition of men, _as_ the whatsoever thou mightest be washing of pots and cups: and profited by me; many other such like things ye do. 6 And honour not his father or 9 And he said unto them, Full his mother, _he shall be well ye reject the commandment free_.