Mark 7:2-23

2And they saw that some of His disciples were eating bread with unclean hands, that is, not washed.

3(For the Pharisees and all Jewish people do not eat unless they wash their hands up to the elbow, keeping the tradition of the elders.

4And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing. There are many other traditions they have received and hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels.)

5The Pharisees and Torah scholars questioned Yeshua, “Why don’t Your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders? Why do they eat bread with unwashed hands?”

6And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me.

7And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8Having left behind the commandment of God, you hold on to the tradition of men.”

9He was also telling them, “You set aside the commands of God, in order that you may validate your own tradition.

10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’

11But you say if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever you might have gained from me is korban (that is, an offering to God),’

12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

13making void the word of God with your tradition that you’ve handed down. And you do many such things.”

14Then Yeshua called the crowd again and began saying to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand.

15There is nothing outside the man that can make him unholy by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.”

16[footnote: Some mss. Add: If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.]

17When He had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

18And He said to them, “Are you then also lacking understanding? Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the man cannot make him unholy?

19For it does not enter into the heart but into the stomach, and then goes out into the sewer, cleansing all foods.”

20And He continued, “It is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.

21For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil intentions, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

22adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustfulness, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

23All these evil things come from within and make the man unholy.”