Mark 7:5

they said to Jesus, “Your followers are not keeping the rules that our old leaders gave us a long time ago. They did not wash their hands the right way before they started to eat their food.”

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In The King James Version

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

In Context

6Jesus said to them, “Isaiah lived a long time ago and told people God's messages. He wrote about people that think 2 ways, just like you. The words he wrote about you are in God's book. Isaiah wrote, ‘Those people show respect for me with their mouths, but really they think another way.

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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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