Mark 7:1

New Catholic Bible

Traditions That Falsify the Law of God.^[a] ¹When the Pharisees, along with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around Jesus,

Mark 7:1 Jesus reproaches the teachers, who insist upon “traditions” that they themselves have sometimes invented, with a legalism that allows them to have a good conscience, even as they disregard the essential demands of the Law (Ex 20:12; 21:17; Lev 20:9; Isa 29:13). See also note on Mt 15:2ff.

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