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Then some P'rushim and Torah-teachers from Yerushalayim came to Yeshua and asked him,
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"Why is it that your talmidim break the Tradition of the Elders? They don't do n'tilat-yadayim before they eat!"
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He answered, "Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition?
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For God said, `Honor your father and mother,' and `Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
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But you say, `If anyone says to his father or mother, "I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,"
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then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.' Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God!
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You hypocrites! Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you,
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`These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
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Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'"
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Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand this!
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What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!"
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The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?"
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He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit."
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Kefa said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
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So he said, "Don't you under stand even now?
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Don't you see that anything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and passes out into the latrine?
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But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean.
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For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . .
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These are what really make a person unclean, but eating without doing n'tilat-yadayim does not make a person unclean."