“Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,”
Mark 7:1 (BSB)
Context Reading
1Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, 2and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled — that is, unwashed. 3Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.