| DB1 | | The Tradition of the Elders Mk.7.1-23 | KNSB Contents | notes| 7 | katapi New Standard Bible | Passage |
| 1 | Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, | The Tradition of the Elders Mk.7.1-23 (Capernaum) | Mt.15.1-20 |
| 2 | they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. | |
| 3 | (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; | |
| 4 | and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze and beds.) | |
| 5 | And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live 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 honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; | - This people honours me with their lips Mk.7.6-7 | Is.29.13 |
| 7 | in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' | |
| 8 | You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." | |
| 9 | And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! | |
| 10 | For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; | - Honor your father and your mother Mk.7.10 | Ex.20.12 | Dt.5.16 |
| 11 | but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) - | |
| 12 | then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, | |
| 13 | thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do." | |
| 14 | And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: | |
| 15 | there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him." | |
| 16 | Other ancient authorities add verse 16, "If any man has ears to hear, let him hear" | |
| 17 | And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. | |
| 18 | And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, | |
| 19 | since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) | |
| 20 | And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. | |
| 21 | For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, | |
| 22 | coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. | |
| 23 | All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man." | |