³⁸ And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

³ And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

² and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

⁴ and `when they come' from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

⁵ 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?

²⁵ There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purifying.