Jesus continued speaking,“ You have a fine way of setting aside God’s commands! You do this so you can follow your own teachings.

又说：“你们诚然是废弃神的诫命，要守自己的遗传。

耶稣又说：“你们诚然是废弃上帝的诫命，为要守自己的传统。

耶稣又说：“你们诚然是废弃神的诫命，为要守自己的传统。

耶稣又对他们说：“你们为了拘守自己的传统，竟巧妙地废除了上帝的诫命。

耶稣又对他们说：“你们为了坚守自己的传统，而巧妙地把神的诫命拒绝了。

耶稣又对他们说：“你们为了要守住你们的传统，竟然弃绝了神的命令！

又說：「你們誠然是廢棄神的誡命，要守自己的遺傳。

耶穌又說：「你們誠然是廢棄上帝的誡命，為要守自己的傳統。

耶穌又說：「你們誠然是廢棄神的誡命，為要守自己的傳統。

耶穌又對他們說：「你們為了拘守自己的傳統，竟巧妙地廢除了上帝的誡命。

耶穌又對他們說：“你們為了堅守自己的傳統，而巧妙地把神的誡命拒絕了。

他又對他們說：『你們很聰明地廢棄了上帝的誡命，為要遵守自己的傳統規矩！

耶穌又對他們說：「你們為了要守住你們的傳統，竟然棄絕了神的命令！

又曰、誠哉、爾廢上帝誡、守爾遺傳也、

又曰、爾誠廢上帝誡執爾遺傳者、

又謂之曰、爾誠廢天主之誡、為欲守爾之遺傳、

又曰：『爾曹之所以廢棄天主誡命、而維護爾之習俗者、亦已巧矣！

And he continued,“ You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

And he said to them,“ You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

Then he said,“ You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.

He also said to them,“ You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!

He was also saying to them,“ You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

He said to them,“ All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

He also said to them,“ You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition!

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

He also said to them,“ You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

He said to them,“ Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

I do not get rid of the grace of God. What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands to make them“ clean.” That’s what the elders teach.

Lord, it’s time for you to act. People are breaking your law.

“ We won’t listen to the message you have spoken to us in the Lord’ s name!We will certainly do everything we said we would. We’ll burn incense to the female god called the Queen of Heaven. We’ll pour out drink offerings to her. We’ll do just as we and our people of long ago have done. Our kings and our officials also did it. All of us did it in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food. We were well off. We didn’t suffer any harm.

Jesus replied,“ And why don’t you obey God’s command? You would rather follow your own teachings!God said,‘ Honor your father and mother.’( Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16) He also said,‘ Anyone who asks for bad things to happen to their father or mother must be put to death.’( Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9)But suppose people have something that might be used to help their parents. You allow them to say it is instead‘ a gift set apart for God.’So they do not need to honor their father or mother with their gift. You make the word of God useless in order to follow your own teachings.

The earth is polluted by its people. They haven’t obeyed the laws of the Lord. They haven’t done what he told them to do. They’ve broken the covenant that will last forever.

You make the word of God useless by putting your own teachings in its place. And you do many things like this.”

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus. He went there to see Tiglath- Pileser, the king of Assyria. Ahaz saw an altar in Damascus. He sent a drawing of it to Uriah the priest. Ahaz also sent him plans for building it.So Uriah the priest built an altar. He followed all the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. He finished it before Ahaz returned.The king came back from Damascus. When he saw the altar, he approached it. Then he offered sacrifices on it.He offered up his burnt offering and grain offering. He poured out his drink offering. And he splashed the blood from his friendship offerings against the altar.The bronze altar for burnt offerings stood in front of the Lord. It was between the new altar and the Lord’ s temple. Ahaz took the bronze altar away from the front of the temple. He put it on the north side of the new altar.Then King Ahaz gave orders to Uriah the priest. He said,“ Offer sacrifices on the large new altar. Offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering. Offer my burnt offering and my grain offering. Offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land. Offer their grain offering and their drink offering. Splash against this altar the blood from all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to look for advice and direction.”Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had ordered.

The Lord says,“ These people worship me only with their words. They honor me by what they say. But their hearts are far away from me. Their worship doesn’t mean anything to me. They teach nothing but human rules that they have been taught.

He’ll speak against the Most High God. He’ll treat God’s holy people badly. He will try to change the times and laws that were given by God. God’s holy people will be placed under his power for three and a half years.

Does faith make the law useless? Not at all! We agree with the law.

“ A certain king will do as he pleases. He will honor himself. He will put himself above every god. He will say things against the greatest God of all. Those things have never been heard before. He will have success until God is not angry anymore. What God has decided to do must take place.

He will oppose everything that is called God. He will oppose everything that is worshiped. He will give himself power over everything. He will set himself up in God’s temple. He will announce that he himself is God.