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Mark 7:5

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And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

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Mark 7:5 in other translations

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

Mark 7:5 · World English Bible

Mark 7:5 in context

  1. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
  2. 4and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
  3. 5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
  4. 6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
  5. 7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.