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Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.’ (vs.1-2)

"Be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go." (v.7)

"Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them on your neck ... any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, says the Lord, to till it and live there. Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live." (v.2, 11-12)

“A voice cries out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD.’” (v. 3)

“In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ.” (v. 11)

"When King Herod heard this, he was frightened..." (v. 3)

"Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice'. For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners ... Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, 'Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.' And instantly the woman was made well". (v.13, 22)