2 “Why do your disciples break the ⁿtradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,¹ holding to the ^atradition of the elders,

8 See to it that no one ^ztakes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human ^atradition, according to the ^belemental spirits¹ of the world, and not according to Christ.