Mark 7:1-13 ⓘ

7:1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

7:2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

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.)

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?”

7:6 He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7:7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

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.”

7:9 He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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,

7:12 “then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

7:13 making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”