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Mark 7:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. "
Mark 7:2
Verse in Context
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1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
4 They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
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Mark 7:1
"Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem."
Mark 7:3
"(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders."
Mark 7:4
"They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)"
Mark 7:5
"The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”"
Mark 7:6
"He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
Mark 7:7
"They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’"
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