Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

4 And from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

6 He answered and said unto them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with lips, but their heart is far from me.

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines the commandments of men.

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