Mark 7:3

Mark 7:1-23

¹And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gather around him, ²and they saw that some of his disciples were eating the bread with defiled hands, that is, unwashed. ³(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders; ⁴and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they immerse themselves; and there are many other things that they have received to hold to, immersions of cups and pitchers and copper pots and dining couches.) ⁵And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with defiled hands?” ⁶But he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁷and in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ⁸Having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” ⁹And he was saying to them, “How well you set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ ¹¹But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” (that is, an offering)’— ¹²you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down; and many such things you do.” ¹⁴And summoning the crowd again, he was saying to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. ¹⁵There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him; but the things that come out of a person are what defile the person.” ¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁷And when he went into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸And he says to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding too? Do you not see that whatever goes from outside into a person cannot defile him, ¹⁹because it does not go into his heart but into the stomach, and goes out into the latrine?” —declaring clean all foods. ²⁰And he was saying, “What comes out of a person, that defiles the person. ²¹For from within, out of the heart of people, come the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, ²²adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³All these evil things come out from within and defile the person.”

Matthew 15:1-20

¹Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying, ²“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” ³But he answered and said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ ⁵But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is an offering to God,” ⁶will certainly not honor his father.’ And you have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well about you, saying, ⁸‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me; ⁹and in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” ¹⁰And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Listen and understand: ¹¹it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles the person, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles the person.” ¹²Then the disciples come up and say to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard your word?” ¹³But he answered and said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. ¹⁴Leave them; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” ¹⁵And Peter answered and said to him, “Explain this parable to us.” ¹⁶And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷Do you not see that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine? ¹⁸But the things that come out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those defile the person. ¹⁹For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. ²⁰These are what defile the person; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the person.”