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Mark 7:5

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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?

Mark 7:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 7:5

Theological / Devotional

Walk. In a figurative sense, “live.” Compare Enoch’s “walk” with God (see Gen. 5:24). It was the disciples’ way of life, or manner of living, that disturbed the Pharisees and the scribes.

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