³⁸ and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

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

³ And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

² and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands -- that is, unwashed -- eating bread, they found fault;

³ for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders,

⁴ and, `coming' from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

⁵ Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, `Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?'

²⁵ there arose then a question from the disciples of John with `some' Jews about purifying,