“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
- BSB “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- NKJV “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
- NASB “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
- NLT “Why do your disciples disobey our age-old tradition? For they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat.”
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- Luke 11:38When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
- Mark 7:2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
- Col 2:20–23If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- Col 2:8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
- Mark 7:5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”
- 1 Pet 1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- Gen 1:14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
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