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The disciples eat with unwashed hands. The commandment of God is transgressed by man’s precepts. Of the woman of Syro-Phoenicia. Of the Sabbath.

And the Pharisees came together to him, and some of the scribes who came from Jerusalem. And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands (that is to say, with unwashed hands), they complained. For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, will not eat, observing the precepts of the elders.

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