Mark 7:1-5 The Pharisees and some experts in the law of Moses, who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around Jesus.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The Pharisees and some experts in the law of Moses, who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around Jesus. ² They had observed some of His disciples eating their food with contaminated, that is, [ceremonially] unwashed hands. ³ (For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders). ⁴ And when they returned from the open shopping markets they refused to eat [anything] until they washed themselves [or “it,” that is, the food, thoroughly]. There were also many other traditions which they [strictly] observed, like washing cups, pots and copper kettles [thoroughly].) [Note: The most accurate Greek manuscripts do not add “and beds” in this verse]. ⁵ The Pharisees and experts in the law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”