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They don’t eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)[a] So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus,[b] “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat[c] with unclean hands.”

He told them, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written,

‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:4 Other mss. lack and dinner tables
  2. Mark 7:5 Lit. him
  3. Mark 7:5 Lit. eat bread