Mark 7:2-9

2They saw that some of his disciples were unclean  because they ate without washing their hands.

3(The Pharisees, like all other Jewish people, don’t eat unless they have properly washed their hands. They follow the traditions of their ancestors.

4When they come from the marketplace, they don’t eat unless they have washed first. They have been taught to follow many other rules. For example, they must also wash their cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

5The Pharisees and the experts in Moses’ Teachings asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples follow the traditions taught by our ancestors? They are unclean because they don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

6Jesus told them, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites in Scripture: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

7Their worship of me is pointless, because their teachings are rules made by humans.’

8“You abandon the commandments of God to follow human traditions.”

9He added, “You have no trouble rejecting the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions!