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Mark 7:5-7
New Testament for Everyone
Mark 7:5-7
New Testament for Everyone
5 Anyway, 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;
7 all in vain they think to worship me,
all they teach is human commands.
Mark 7:5-7
New International Version
Mark 7:5-7
New International Version
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders(A) instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
Footnotes
- Mark 7:7 Isaiah 29:13
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