<p>11:38 <i>And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner</i>- Rabbi Joses claimed that &ldquo;to eat with unwashen hands is as great a sin as adultery&rdquo;. And Rabbi Akiba in captivity used his water ration to wash his hands rather than to drink, resulting in him almost dying of dehydration.&nbsp;The Lord seems to have purposefully ignored this tradition in order to provoke the inevitable conversation about it. The Lord Jesus had asked the disciples to be obedient to every jot and tittle of the teaching of the Scribes, because they &ldquo;sit in Moses&rsquo; seat&rdquo;. But He was no literalist nor legalist. He broke that principle in order to establish higher ones in this context.</p>