The fact that some believers began to form factions based on who they received baptism from prompted Paul to remind them that the teachings they reveived from Cephas Apollos or Paul himself were all from Christ and Christ from God.
This was a different idea from what prevailed at that time. Different factions had different teachings depending on who they followed, and two major factions in Judaism were the two rabbinical schools of Hillel and Shimei. You could say that a rabbi is one who created new doctrine, original material, with no foundation on Scripture, but on tradition.
Jesus was teaching against that. All teachings needed to be built on the teachings of the law and the prophets, Scripture, Torah.
Mark 7
1The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,
2and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.
3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands,
thusobserving the traditions of the elders;
4and
when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)
5The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
6And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS,
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.
7‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME,
TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’
8“Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
9He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.
10“For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER’; and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH’;
11but you say, ‘If a man says to
his father or
his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given
to God),’
12you no longer permit him to do anything for
his father or
his mother;
13thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
