^2 (A)“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

² Now ^[a]when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with ^(A)unwashed hands, ^[b]they found fault.

³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands ^[a]in a special way, holding the ^(A)tradition of the elders.