Looks Can Be Deceiving

1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 "Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"

3 Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother'^[a] and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'^[b] 5 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' 6 he is not to 'honor his father^[c]' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 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 They worship Me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'^[d]"

10 Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, "Listen and understand. 11 What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "

-Matthew 15:1-11