For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. {oft: or, diligently: in the original, with the fist: Theophylact, up to the elbow}

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? {to appear: Heb. to be seen}

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Then there arose a question between {some} of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. {have been...: or, lifted up the face against: Heb. accepted faces}

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.