The Galilee area is known for being a hot bed of dissent against Rome. When they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say with unwashed in hands, they found fault. Traditions about how much you need to wash were in flux and they were changing. So it got somewhat beyond the norm probably because he calls them hypocrites.

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