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Mark - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
- and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
- (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
- and `when they come' from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
- And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
- And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
- But in vain do they worship me, Teaching `as their' doctrines the precepts of men.
- Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
- And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
- For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
- but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given `to God';
- ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
- making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
- And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
- there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
- `If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.'
- And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
- And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, `it' cannot defile him;
- because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? `This he said', making all meats clean.
- And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
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