Mark 7:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Mark 7:13

thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:8

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

Mark 7:9

Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

Acts 21:21

They have been told about you that you teach all the Jews living among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs.

Acts 21:24

Join these men, go through the rite of purification with them, and pay for the shaving of their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself observe and guard the law.

Romans 4:12

and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us.