Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, [no] but they wash often their hands, holding the traditions of (the) elder men.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with unwashen hands, they blamed [them], (or they rebuked them).

4And when they turn again from [the] market (or And when they return from the market), they eat not, [no] but they be washed; and many other things there be, that be taken to them to keep (or to obey), as (the) washing of cups, and of water vessels [or of cruets], and of vessels of brass, and of beds.

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Cross References

Mark 7:5And (the) Pharisees and (the) scribes asked him, and said, Why go not thy disciples after the tradition (s) of (the) elder men, but with unwashen (or unwashed) hands they eat bread?

Mark 7:13and ye break the word of God by your tradition, that ye have given; and ye do many [other] such things.

Colossians 2:8See ye that no man deceive you by philosophy and vain, (or empty and futile), fallacy, after the tradition (s) of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

1 Peter 1:18witting that not by corruptible gold, either silver, ye be bought again of your vain living of (your) fathers’ tradition, (knowing that not by corruptible gold, or silver, ye be redeemed, or released, from the empty and useless living of your fathers’ traditions,)

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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