Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Mark 7:2 - The Scriptures 2009 And seeing some of His taught ones eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they had seen that some of His disciples ate with common hands, that is, unwashed [with hands defiled and unhallowed, because they had not given them a ceremonial washing]– American Standard Version (1901) and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. Common English Bible They saw some of his disciples eating food with unclean hands. (They were eating without first ritually purifying their hands through washing. Catholic Public Domain Version And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. |
Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your taught ones not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that He did not first wash before dinner.
And he said to them, “You know that a Yehuḏi man is not allowed to associate with, or go to one of another race. But Elohim has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
But I said, ‘Not at all, Master! Because whatever is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.’ ”
I know and am persuaded in the Master יהושע that none at all is common of itself. But to him who regards whatever to be common, to him it is common.
How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?
And there shall by no means enter into it whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.