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God’s Commandments, Man’s Traditions

(A)And the Pharisees and some of the scribes *gathered around Him when they had come (B)from Jerusalem, and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with (C)defiled hands, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they [a]carefully wash their hands, thus observing the (D)tradition of the elders;

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:3 Lit with the fist

That Which Defiles(A)

The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled,(B) that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.(C)

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