Mark

²and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. ³For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders: ⁴and when they come from the marketplace, except they wash themselves, they eat not: and many other things there be, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels. ⁵And 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? ⁶And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. ⁷But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. ⁸Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.