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Breaking Human Traditions

Now[a] the Pharisees[b] and some of the experts in the law[c] who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples[d] ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:1 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
  2. Mark 7:1 sn See the note on Pharisees in 2:16.
  3. Mark 7:1 tn Or “and some of the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
  4. Mark 7:2 tn Grk “his disciples.”