Mark 7:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify^[a] themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.^[b]) ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live^[c] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?” ⁶ And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,