Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

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WEBBE

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

BSB

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

KJV

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

ASV

( For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

BBE

Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

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οἱ hoi (the) G3588 γὰρ gar For G1063 Φαρισαῖοι Pharisaioi the Pharisees G5330 καὶ kai and G2532 πάντες pantes all G3956 οἱ hoi the G3588 Ἰουδαῖοι Ioudaioi Jews G2453 ἐὰν ean only G1437 μὴ mē unless G3361 πυγμῇ pugmēa with a fist G4435 νίψωνται nipsōntai they shall wash G3538 τὰς tas the G3588 χεῖρας cheiras hands G5495 οὐκ ouk not G3756 ἐσθίουσιν esthiousin eat G2068 κρατοῦντες kratountes holding G2902 τὴν tēn the G3588 παράδοσιν paradosin tradition G3862 τῶν tōn of the G3588 πρεσβυτέρων presbuterōn elders G4245

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