Mark 7:2-17

²Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with ceremonially unclean, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

³For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with their fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

⁴And coming from the marketplace, unless they bathe, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received by tradition, like the washing of cups and pitchers, copper vessels and couches.

⁵Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?”

⁶And answering He said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy 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.’

⁸For having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other similar things you do.”

⁹And He said to them, “Well do you set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition.

¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.’

¹¹But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or to his mother, “Whatever you might be profited by me is Corban” ’—(that is, a gift),

¹²then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

¹³thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do.”

¹⁴And having summoned all the crowd, He said to them, “Hear Me, all of you and understand:

¹⁵There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him, can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.

¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁷When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples were asking Him about the parable.