He replied, “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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They worship me in vain;
    their teachings are merely human rules.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:7 Isaiah 29:13

And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe[a] your own traditions!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:9 Some manuscripts set up

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