Mark 7:5

New English Translation

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

Mark 7:13

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:8

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

Mark 7:9

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

Acts 21:21

They have been informed about you – that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

Acts 21:24

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.

Romans 4:12

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

Galatians 1:14

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.