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and when they come from the marketplace, except they [a]bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, [b]washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels[c].) And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with [d]defiled hands? And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

[e]This people honoreth me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:4 Greek baptize. Some ancient authorities read sprinkle themselves.
  2. Mark 7:4 Greek baptizings.
  3. Mark 7:4 Many ancient authorities add and couches.
  4. Mark 7:5 Or, common
  5. Mark 7:6 Isa. 29:13.