Then asked him the Pharisees and Scribes, Why [a]walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat meat with unwashen hands?

[b]Then he answered and said unto them, Surely (A)Isaiah hath prophesied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with lips, but their heart is far away from me.

[c]But they worship me in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:5 Why live they not? a kind of speech taken from the Hebrews: for amongst them, the way is taken for trade of life.
  2. Mark 7:6 Hypocrisy is always joined with superstition.
  3. Mark 7:7 The more earnest the superstitious are, the more they are mad, in promising themselves God’s favor by their deserts.

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