Mark 7:1-5 ▼

1 And gathered together to Him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,

2 and having seen certain of His disciples with defiled hands—that is, unwashed—eating bread, they found fault;

3 for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders,

4 and [coming] from the marketplace, if they do not immerse themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, immersions of cups, and pots, and bronze vessels, and couches.

5 Then the Pharisees and the scribes question Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with unwashed hands?”