So the Pharisees(A) and the scribes(B) asked him, “Why don’t your disciples live[a] according to the tradition of the elders,(C) instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean[b] hands?”

He answered them, “Isaiah(D) prophesied(E) correctly about you hypocrites,(F) as it is written: (G)

This people honors(H) me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
They worship me in vain,
teaching(I) as doctrines(J) human commands.[c](K)

Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Lit walk
  2. 7:5 Other mss read with unwashed
  3. 7:6–7 Is 29:13
  4. 7:8 Other mss add The washing of jugs, and cups, and many other similar things you practice.

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