Mark 7: 1 -
13
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Now when the Pharisees gathered together to
him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, |
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they saw that some of his disciples ate with
hands defiled, that is, unwashed. |
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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not
eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
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and when they come from the market place,
they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other
traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of
bronze.) |
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And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him,
"Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but
eat with hands defiled?" |
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And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me; |
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in vain do they worship me, teaching as
doctrines the precepts of men.' |
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You leave the commandment of God, and hold
fast the tradition of men." |
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And he said to them, "You have a fine way of
rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
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| 10 |
For Moses said, `Honor your father and your
mother'; and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
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but you say, `If a man tells his father or
his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to
God) -- |
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then you no longer permit him to do anything
for his father or mother, |
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thus making void the word of God through
your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do." |
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