Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they carefully wash their hands, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

In Context

2And seeing some of his disciples eating bread with defiled (that is, unwashen) hands, they found fault.

4And coming from the market, except they immerse themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they received to hold, immersions of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

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Cross References

Mark 7:5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands?

Mark 7:13annulling the word of God by your tradition, which ye handed down. And many such things ye do.

Colossians 2:8Beware lest there shall be any one that despoils you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

1 Peter 1:18knowing that not with perishable things, silver and gold, ye were redeemed from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers,

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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