Thematic Bible: Zealous of tradition

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

Verse Concepts

Ablutionelders, as community leadersJews, TheCharacteristics Of Pharisees

How People EatThe Elderlypharisees

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

Verse Concepts

LegalismPharisees, Beliefs OfNew Age Beliefs

Resolving Conflictzealotscredibility

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?" He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. read more.
You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.