Mark 7:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands,^[a] observing the tradition of the elders;^{[b] 4} and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify^[c] themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.^[d]) ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live^[e] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”