Mark 7:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;^[a] and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.^[b]) ⁵ So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live^[c] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ⁶ He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,