Jesus Versus Tradition

The Pharisees rebuked Jesus for not following the Jewish traditions. They were discussing defilement, and the Pharisees were saying that because Jesus didn't wash His hands in the prescribed manner that He was defiling Himself. But Jesus gave them a teaching on what is clean and what is unclean. "It is not what enters a man's mouth that makes him unclean, but what comes out of a man's mouth, i.e., from his heart, that makes him unclean."