Today's Bible Reading -- Matthew 15:1-9

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ² "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat." ³ He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.' ⁵ But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.' ⁶ So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God. ⁷ You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: ⁸ 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; ⁹ in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"