Markus 7:5-7

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 ¹  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 ²  is far from me.

7:7 They worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’ ³ 

[7:5]  ¹ tn Grk “eat bread.”

[7:6]  ² tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

[7:7]  ³ sn A quotation from Isa 29:13.