Mark 7:4-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
4 and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify[a] themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.[b]) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live[c] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?” 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
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