5 Bible Verses about How People Eat

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."

They had noticed that some of His disciples were in the habit of eating their meals without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to make them clean.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"