007:003 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 007:004 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) 007:005 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?" 007:006 He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 007:007 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'{Isaiah 29:13} 007:008 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 007:009 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 007:010 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'{Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9} 007:011 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban{Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say, given to God;"' 007:012 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 007:013 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this." 007:014 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. 007:015 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. 007:016 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" 007:017 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 007:018 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him, 007:019 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?" 007:020 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 007:021 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 007:022 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 007:023 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."