¹⁴ but have ^(A)followed the stubbornness of their heart and the ^(B)Baals, ^[a]as their ^(C)fathers taught them,”

² “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they ^(A)do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

³ (For the Pharisees and all the other Jews do not eat unless they ^[a]carefully wash their hands, thereby holding firmly to the ^(A)tradition of the elders;

^8 (A)See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through ^(B)philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the ^(C)elementary principles of the world, ^[a]rather than in accordance with Christ.