Mark 7:5-7

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⁵Anyway, the Pharisees and legal experts asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they eat their food with unwashed hands?”

⁶“Isaiah summed you up just right,” Jesus replied. “What hypocrites you are! What he said was this:

With their lips this people honors me,
but with their hearts they turn away from me;
⁷all in vain they think to worship me,
all they teach is human commands.