Transgress The Commandments Of God By Ancient Jews

They upheld religious externalism as we read in Matthew 15:2, where the Scribes and Pharisees ask Jesus "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" We learn that ancient Jews had taken their tradition very seriously, as put by Poole, “Many ancient Jews took this tradition of elders very seriously.” (Poole). And the Jewish Rabbi Jose puts it like this: “He sins as much who eats with unwashed hands, as he that lies with a harlot." (Poole)
In this scene, we see Jesus responding to the Rabbis, Scribes and Pharisees with a question setting man’s tradition against God’s will. Jesus answered them, “Why do you also transgress the commandments of God because of your traditions?” (Mathew 15:3,