Mark 7:1-3

1A group of Pharisees and some teachers of God's Law came from Jerusalem to talk with Jesus.

2They had been watching Jesus' disciples. Some of the disciples did not wash their hands before they ate a meal. That is to say, they did not wash them in the right way.

3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat food until they have washed their hands carefully. They do this because of what their leaders taught them.