Mark 7:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

The Pharisees and teachers asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? Why do they eat without washing their hands?”

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 3:6

My dear friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus, I beg you not to have anything to do with any of your people who loaf around and refuse to obey the instructions we gave you.

Acts 21:21

But they have been told that you are teaching those who live among the Gentiles to disobey this Law. They claim that you are telling them not to circumcise their sons or to follow our customs.

Galatians 1:14

I was a much better Jew than anyone else my own age, and I obeyed every law our ancestors had given us.

Acts 21:24

Join with them and prepare yourself for the ceremony that goes with the promises. Pay the cost for their heads to be shaved. Then everyone will learn that the reports about you are not true. They will know you do obey the Law of Moses.

Matthew 15:2

“Why don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? They don't even wash their hands before they eat.”

Romans 4:12

This also makes Abraham the father of everyone who is circumcised and has faith in God, as Abraham did before he was circumcised.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

Now we learn that some of you just loaf around and won't do any work, except the work of a busybody.

Mark 7:8

You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught.

Mark 7:9

You are good at rejecting God's commands so that you can follow your own teachings!

Mark 7:13

And you ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching. You do a lot of other things just as bad.