Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

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WEBBE

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

BSB

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.”

KJV

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?

ASV

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?

BBE

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 ἐπερωτῶσιν eperōtōsin questioned G1905 αὐτὸν auton Him G846 οἱ hoi the G3588 Φαρισαῖοι Pharisaioi Pharisees G5330 καὶ kai and G2532 οἱ hoi the G3588 γραμματεῖς grammateis scribes G1122 διὰ dia Because of G1223 τί ti why G5101 οὐ ou not G3756 περιπατοῦσιν peripatousin walk G4043 οἱ hoi the G3588 μαθηταί mathētai disciples G3101 σου sou of You G4771 κατὰ kata according to G2596 τὴν tēn the G3588 παράδοσιν paradosin tradition G3862 τῶν tōn of the G3588 πρεσβυτέρων presbuterōn elders G4245 ἀλλὰ alla but G235 κοιναῖς koinais with unsanctified G2839 χερσὶν chersin hands G5495 ἐσθίουσιν esthiousin eat G2068 τὸν ton the G3588 ἄρτον;¶ arton bread G740

The early church

(in Matt. 15) Wonderful is the folly of the Pharisees and Scribes; they accuse the Son of God, because He keeps not the traditions and precepts of men.
Jerome · d. 420Catena 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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