But they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'