Mark 7:5
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?”
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Mark 7:5
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?”
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Mark 7:1
Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
Mark 7:2
Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
Mark 7:4
They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
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Mark 7:6
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Mark 7:8
“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Mark 7:11
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,” ’ ” that is to say, given to God,
Mark 7:12
“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
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