Mark 7:8

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

You disregard the commandment of God and [yet] hang onto the traditions of men.”

Cross References

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.