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Mark - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- And there came together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
- And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
- Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
- And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
- And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?
- And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
- For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
- And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
- For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
- But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
- You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;
- Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
- And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:
- There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.
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- And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.
- And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
- Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
- And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.
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