Markus 7:3

7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, ¹  holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

Markus 7:5-8

7:5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat ²  with unwashed hands?” 7:6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart ³  is far from me.

7:7 They worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’ ⁴ 

7:8 Having no regard ⁵  for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.” ⁶ 

[7:3]  ¹ tn Grk “except they wash the hands with a fist,” a ceremonial washing (though the actual method is uncertain).

[7:5]  ² tn Grk “eat bread.”

[7:6]  ³ tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

[7:7]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 29:13.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Grk “Having left the command.”

[7:8]  ⁶ tc The majority of mss, mostly Byzantine ([A] ˹³ 33 Ï), have at the end of v. 8 material that seems to have come from v. 4 and v. 13: “the washing of pots and cups, and you do many other similar things.” A slight variation on the wording occurs at the very beginning of v. 8 in mostly Western witnesses (D Θ 0131^vid 28 565 it). Such floating texts are usually signs of scribal emendations. The fact that the earliest and most reliable mss, as well as other important witnesses (Ì⁴⁵ א B L W Δ 0274 ˹ 2427 co), lacked this material also strongly suggests that the longer reading is secondary.