So things go badly wrong when people imagine that tradition has to nullify what God is saying to us today. Another problem with tradition is that it is easy to pick out this and that rule and make into a test of piety. The rule might have been useful for people in a particular situation such as moving for forty years through the desert. Trying to lay it on people who live in a modern city becomes very burdensome. Tradition also fossilizes a string of high legalistic standards which no ordinary person has any hope of attaining.
Most people give up on religion altogether.
Matthew had engaged in ruthless tax collection. A lot changed after his baptism, but he continued the habit of carrying around one of the new codex books of bound papyrus sheets which were much more convenient than a long papyrus scroll. I noticed he kept writing down what I had taught. They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the market places, and to have people call them rabbi. And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father - the one in heaven.