Jesus confronts those who want to pick the nits of tradition. He points out that through tradition, many of the religious practices actually violate the laws God laid out to protect His people. Their traditions allowed them to profess a relationship with God that was not borne out by their attitudes or actions. A religion that only affects one's words without producing any substantive change in behavior and attitude is a poor religion. Jesus illustrates it this way: the things your life feeds upon (desires, thoughts, urges) is what makes you unclean before God, not the words that come out of your mouth.
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