Thank you for the correction, i.e. it wasn't a humorous tale of someone getting defensive after getting called out for not washing their hands in a modern sense

Thank you for the correction, i.e. it wasn't a humorous tale of someone getting defensive after getting called out for not washing their hands in a modern sense. I'll note that you're agreeing with me in this subthread that Jesus wasn't calling his disciples hypocrites, but the Pharisees.