6 does not have to honor his father. Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of God’s word.
7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8 ‘These people honor me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me.
9 Their worship of me is pointless,because their teachings are rules made by humans.’ ”
10 Then he called the crowd and said to them, “Listen and try to understand!
11 What goes into a person’s mouth doesn’t make him unclean. It’s what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean.”
12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you realize that when the Pharisees heard your statement they were offended?”