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Mark 6
⁵⁴ and climbed out. The people recognized Jesus at once,
⁵⁵ and they ran throughout the whole area, carrying sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was.
⁵⁶ Wherever he went—in villages, cities, or the countryside—they brought the sick out to the marketplaces. They begged him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe, and all who touched him were healed.
Mark 7
¹ One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
² They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
³ (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.
⁴ Similarly, they don’t eat anything from the market until they immerse their hands in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.)
⁵ So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”
⁶ Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
⁷ Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’
⁸ For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.”