5 Bible Verses about How People Eat

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands.

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].)

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"