It's not what goes into your body that makes you unclean, it is the bad words that come out of your mouth. Jesus called the crowd to gather around and listen to what he had to say. They were more concerned with following the traditions of men than they were with following the Word of God. He was saying that the Pharisees thought that clean hands were more important than a clean heart. Jesus wasn’t saying that washing our hands is not important.

He answered them by saying, 'You hypocrites! You are the people the prophet Isaiah wrote about when he said, 'You ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.'' Jesus knew the hearts of the people who were complaining about his disciples’ unwashed hands. They asked Jesus, 'Why don’t your disciples follow our tradition? They eat without first following our hand-washing ceremony.' Jesus responded to the people who questioned him, but his answer was not what they wanted to hear. One day a group of Pharisees noticed that some of Jesus’s disciples were eating without first washing their hands. It is important to have clean hands before we eat, isn’t it? It is a good idea to use soap or a hand sanitizer to make sure we get rid of those germs you can't see. Even when our hands look clean, they have germs on them that can make us sick.

As I sat down at my place at the dinner table, my mother would almost always ask, 'Did you wash your hands?' I must confess that sometimes I would answer, 'Yes' when the truth of the matter was that I had come straight to the dinner table without washing my hands.ĭo you always wash your hands before you eat? (Allow the children to answer.) Clean hands are one of the most important ways to help us stay healthy. Many times I had been outside playing and my hands were quite dirty. I remember times when I was a child that my mother would call out, 'Dinner is ready!' and we would all gather at the dinner table.

Pure heart clean hands song