Matthew 15:2
Douay-Rheims
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Bede the Venerable
(in Marc. 7, 1.) Taking carnally those words of the Prophets, in which it is said, Wash, and he ye clean, they, observed it only in washing the body; (Is. 1:16.) hence they had laid it down that we ought not to eat with unwashen hands.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 15:1-6
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.