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Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

KJV

καὶ ἐπερωτῶσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς· διατί οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σου κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, ἀλλὰ κοιναῖς χερσὶν ἐσθίουσιν τὸν ἄρτον;

Greek NT

et interrogabant eum pharisæi et scribæ : Quare discipuli tui non ambulant juxta traditionem seniorum, sed communibus manibus manducant panem ?

Vulgate

And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

ASV

And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γραμματεύς
grammateus
noun · 64×
διατί
diati
particle · 24×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
κοινός
koinos
adjective · 14×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παράδοσις
paradosis
noun · 13×
περιπατέω
peripateo
verb · 94×
πρεσβύτερος
presbuteros
adjective · 67×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
χείρ
cheir
noun · 175×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἐπερωτάω
eperotao
verb · 56×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ | RP: Ἔπειτα
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἜπειταRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σου | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σου | RP: οἱ μαθηταί σου οὐ περιπατοῦσιν
  • οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σουSBLGNT
  • οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σουWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οἱ μαθηταί σου οὐ περιπατοῦσινRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: κοιναῖς | WH/Treg/NIV: κοιναῖς | RP: ἀνίπτοις
  • κοιναῖςSBLGNT
  • κοιναῖςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀνίπτοιςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Thess 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
  • Acts 21:21 — And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs
  • Acts 21:24 — Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but
  • Gal 1:14 — And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
  • Mark 2:16 — And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
  • Matt 7:29 — For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
  • Matt 15:2 — Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
  • Matt 15:2 — Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.