The Pharisees and the Scribes

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled? And he said to them, well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. You leave the commandment of God and hold fast the tradition of men. The Cirofonetian woman whose daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He told her that even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. Then she went