“But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
He answered them: and why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? Jesus' counter-challenge: the Pharisees who accuse the disciples of breaking the tradition of the elders are themselves breaking the commandment of God through their tradition. The escalation from tradition-of-elders to commandment-of-God communicates the difference in authority between the two: the biblical command and the scribal tradition are not equivalent, and when they conflict, the biblical command must take priority.
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