5 Bible Verses about How People Eat

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."

they saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders.

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.)

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with impure hands?"