Mark 7:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

Acts 21:21

Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

Galatians 1:14

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

Acts 21:24

associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, pay their expenses so that they may be free to have their heads shaved, and then everybody will understand there is nothing in these stories about you, but that, on the contrary, you are guided by obedience to the Law.

Matthew 15:2

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

Romans 4:12

as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

But we are informed that some of your number are loafing, busybodies instead of busy.

Mark 7:8

You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.

Mark 7:9

Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

Mark 7:13

That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."