Jesus hated, and still hates, lies and hypocrisy - they are the words of the devil (John 8:44) which Jesus came to destroy (1 John 3:8). The religious leaders had created a system of 'holiness' which depended on obeying complex rules. The message they gave was that if people could discipline themselves enough, to achieve 'good marks in the tests', then they could consider themselves 'holy'. In Matthew 15:1-20 the 'rule', which was considered so important, was the obsessive washing of hands to avoid getting dirt into the body.
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