Mark 7:1-12 ▼

1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem are gathered together to Him.

2 And they had seen some of His disciples, that with defiled hands—that is, unwashed—they are eating the loaves.

3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash the hands to the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders;

4 and coming from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they immerse; and there are many other things that they received to hold to—immersions of cups and pitchers and bronze vessels and couches.)

5 And the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with defiled hands?”

6 And He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you? hypocrites, as it has been written: ‘This people honors Me with the lips, but their heart is kept far away from Me;

7 and in vain they worship Me, teaching as teachings the precepts of men.’

8 Having left the commandment of God, you? hold to the tradition of men.”

9 And He was saying to them, “Nobly do you? set aside the commandment of God so that you? might keep your? tradition.

10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘The one speaking evil of father or mother, in death let him end.’

11 But you? say that if a man might say to the father or to the mother, ‘Whatever you might be profited from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift),

12 no longer do you? permit him to do anything for the father or for the mother,