Religious leaders of Jesus’ time saw his disciples as unclean. Jesus agrees that we need to be clean, but he locates the source of our uncleanliness and the solution to it in a different place, and suggests that religion actually makes it worse.

Resources:

Mark 7:1-23

Baker Exegetical Commentary: Mark, Robert Stein

Jesus the King, Timothy Keller

You Can Change, Tim Chester

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