Mark 7:2

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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WEBBE

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

BSB

and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled— that is, unwashed.

KJV

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

ASV

and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

BBE

And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

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καὶ kai And G2532 ἰδόντες idontes they had seen G1492 τινὰς tinas some G5100 τῶν tōn of the G3588 μαθητῶν mathētōn disciples G3101 αὐτοῦ autou of Him G846 ὅτι hoti that G3754 κοιναῖς koinais with defiled G2839 χερσίν chersin hands G5495 τοῦτ tout᾽ That G3778 ἔστιν estin is G1510 ἀνίπτοις aniptois unwashed G449 ἐσθίουσιν esthiousin are eating G2068 τοὺς tous the G3588 ἄρτους artous bread G740 ἐμέμψαντο emempsanto they found fault G3201

The early church

(in Matt. 15) But common is here put for unclean; for the people of the Jews, boasting that they were the portion of God, called those meats common, which all made use of.
Jerome · d. 420Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
For the disciples of the Lord, who were taught only the practice of virtue, used to eat in a simple way, without washing their hands; but the Pharisees, wishing to find an occasion of blame against them, took it up; they did not indeed blame them as transgressors of the law, but for transgressing the traditions of the elders. Wherefore it goes on: For the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Mystically, again, the disciples eating with unwashed hands signifies the future fellowship of the Gentiles with the Apostles. The cleansing and washing of the Pharisees is barren; but the fellowship of the Apostles, though without washing, has stretched out its branches as far as the sea.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–13

One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.

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CommandmentsAblutionPurificationHandEcclesiasticism

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.