Mark 7:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And the Pharisees and scribes kept asking [Jesus], Why do Your disciples not order their way of living according to the tradition handed down by the forefathers [to be observed], but eat with hands unwashed and ceremonially not purified?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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?

Common English Bible

⁵ So the Pharisees and legal experts asked Jesus, “Why are your disciples not living according to the rules handed down by the elders but instead eat food with ritually unclean hands?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

Mark 7:5 Cross References

Matthew 15:2

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

Mark 7:13

[thus] nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."

Mark 7:8

"For having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men-the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other similar things you do."

Mark 7:9

And He said to them, "Well do you set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition.

Acts 21:21

and they have been informed about you, that you are teaching defection from Moses, to all the Jews who are among the Gentiles, saying for them not to circumcise their children nor to walk in our customs.

Acts 21:24

Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay for them that they may have their head shaved, and that all may know that those things of which they have been informed about you are nothing, but [that] you are agreeing with and keeping the law yourself.

Romans 4:12

and the father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those following in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham[ had while] in uncircumcision.

Galatians 1:14

And I was advancing in Judaism above many my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear [that] some are walking among you in a disorderly way, not working at all, but being busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according to the tradition which they received from us.