Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

Then {G1899} the Pharisees {G5330} and {G2532} scribes {G1122} asked {G1905} him {G846}, Why {G1302} walk {G4043} not {G3756} thy {G4675} disciples {G3101} according {G2596} to the tradition {G3862} of the elders {G4245}, but {G235} eat {G2068} bread {G740} with unwashen {G449} hands {G5495}?

The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

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Cross-References

  • Acts 21:21 (4 votes)

    And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise [their] children, neither to walk after the customs.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:6 (4 votes)

    ¶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

  • Matthew 15:2 (3 votes)

    Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

  • Acts 21:24 (3 votes)

    Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

  • Mark 2:16 (3 votes)

    And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

  • Mark 2:18 (3 votes)

    ¶ And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

  • Galatians 1:14 (3 votes)

    And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.