Proclamation of the Word - September 8, 2024
"Tradition! Tradition!"Katie McKown, Senior Minister
Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky

Mark 7:1-8

1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from

Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples

were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the

Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their

hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat

anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other

traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)

5So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not

live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

6He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is

written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me;

7in vain do they worship me,

teaching human precepts as doctrines.’

8You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”