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One of the visiting Pharisees, mounting a lamp-stand, shouted out this question:  

One of the visiting Pharisees, mounting a lamp-stand, shouted out this question:  

*"You tell us that you are the bread of life. '''How can you give us your flesh to eat or your blood to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out?"'''

*"You tell us that you are the bread of life. How can you give us your flesh to eat or your blood to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out?"

And Jesus answered:   

And Jesus answered:   

Then one of the Jerusalem spies who had been observing Jesus and his apostles, said:

Then one of the Jerusalem spies who had been observing Jesus and his apostles, said:

*'''"We notice that neither you nor your apostles wash your hands properly before you eat bread. You must well know that such a practice as eating with defiled and unwashed hands is a transgression of the law of the elders. Neither do you properly wash your drinking cups and eating vessels. Why is it that you show such disrespect for the traditions of the fathers and the laws of our elders?"'''  

*"We notice that neither you nor your apostles wash your hands properly before you eat bread. You must well know that such a practice as eating with defiled and unwashed hands is a transgression of the law of the elders. Neither do you properly wash your drinking cups and eating vessels. '''Why is it that you show such disrespect for the traditions of the fathers and the laws of our elders?"'''  

And when Jesus heard him speak, he answered:  

And when Jesus heard him speak, he answered:  

   

   

*'''"Why is it that you transgress the commandments of God by the laws of your tradition?''' The commandment says, `Honor your father and your mother,' and directs that you share with them your substance if necessary. But you enact a law of tradition that permits undutiful children to say that the money wherewith the parents might have been assisted has been `given to God.' The law of the elders thus relieves such crafty children of their responsibility, notwithstanding that the children subsequently use all such monies for their own comfort. '''Why is it that you in this way make void the commandment by your own tradition?''' Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, saying: `this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.'  

*"Why is it that you transgress the commandments of God by the laws of your tradition? The commandment says, `Honor your father and your mother,' and directs that you share with them your substance if necessary. But you enact a law of tradition that permits undutiful children to say that the money wherewith the parents might have been assisted has been `given to God.' The law of the elders thus relieves such crafty children of their responsibility, notwithstanding that the children subsequently use all such monies for their own comfort. Why is it that you in this way make void the commandment by your own tradition? Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, saying: `this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.'  

*"You can see how it is that you desert the commandment while you hold fast to the tradition of men. Altogether willing are you to reject the word of God while you maintain your own traditions. And in many other ways do you dare to set up your own teachings above the law and the prophets."

*"You can see how it is that you desert the commandment while you hold fast to the tradition of men. Altogether willing are you to reject the word of God while you maintain your own traditions. And in many other ways do you dare to set up your own teachings above the law and the prophets."

But even the apostles failed fully to grasp the meaning of his words, for Simon Peter also asked him:

But even the apostles failed fully to grasp the meaning of his words, for Simon Peter also asked him:

*'''"Lest some of your hearers be unnecessarily offended, would you explain to us the meaning of these words?"'''

*"Lest some of your hearers be unnecessarily offended, would you explain to us the meaning of these words?"  

And then said Jesus to Peter:  

And then said Jesus to Peter: