Similarly, they don’t eat anything from the market until they immerse their hands[a] in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.[b])

So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”

Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,

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

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Footnotes

  1. 7:4a Some manuscripts read sprinkle themselves.
  2. 7:4b Some manuscripts add and dining couches.

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