Daily Discovery Bible Study

5 So the Pharisees and religious leaders asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples follow the tradition of our ancestors? They eat food with unclean hands.”

6 Jesus replied, “Isaiah was right about you hypocrites when he said, ‘These people claim they honor me, but in their thinking they are far from me.7 There's no point in their worship of me, for what they teach as doctrines are merely human rules.’8 You disregard God's law, and instead you carefully observe human traditions,” he told them.

9 “How cleverly you set aside God's law so you can support your traditions!10 Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses their father or mother should die.’11 But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Anything you might have received from me is now Corban,’ (that means dedicated to God),12 then you don't permit them to do anything further for their mother or father.13 By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God's word null and void. You do many other things like this.”

Mark 7: 5-13