Add parallel Print Page Options

De Farizeeën en bijbelgeleerden vroegen aan Jezus: ‘Waarom trekken uw leerlingen zich niets aan van de traditie? Zij hebben voor het eten niet eens hun handen gewassen.’ Hij antwoordde: ‘Huichelaars! De profeet Jesaja had gelijk toen hij zei: “Deze mensen eren God met de mond, maar in hun hart moeten zij niets van Hem hebben. Hun godsdienst is waardeloos. Ze houden zich alleen maar bezig met menselijke wetten en niet met de wet van God.”

Read full chapter

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders(A) instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

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.
They worship me in vain;
    their teachings are merely human rules.’[a](B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:7 Isaiah 29:13

(A)Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”

He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you (B)hypocrites, as it is written:

(C)‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

Read full chapter

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to (A)the tradition of (B)the elders, (C)but eat with (D)defiled hands?” And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you (E)hypocrites, as it is written,

(F)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
    teaching as (G)doctrines the commandments of men.’

Read full chapter