“And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
And he continued: you have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions — the irony is sharp: fine (kalōs) is used sarcastically — you are very good at this, you have a practiced skill for it. Setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions communicates the deliberateness of the substitution. This is not accidental negligence but systematic preference for the tradition over the command.
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