Mark 7:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² They had observed some of His disciples eating their food with contaminated, that is, [ceremonially] unwashed hands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

Common English Bible

² 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

² And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them.

Mark 7:2 Cross References

Acts 10:28

And he said to them, “You people know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with, or even go near a person from another [i.e., non-Jewish] country, and yet God showed me that I should not consider any person ordinary or [ceremonially] unacceptable.

Romans 14:14

As one who is in [fellowship with] the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that nothing in itself is [ceremonially] unclean. But to the person who considers something [ceremonially] unclean, it then becomes unclean to him.

Acts 11:8

But I said, ‘O no, Lord, for I have never even tasted anything ordinary or [ceremonially] unfit [for Jews to eat].’

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals].”

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee observed this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first washed himself ceremonially before the meal.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think a person deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God and has regarded the blood of the [New] Agreement, with which he was set apart for God, an unholy thing and has insulted the Holy Spirit, through whom God’s unearned favor is shown?

Revelation 21:27

And there will never be anything [morally] unclean allowed to enter it, nor any person who practices disgusting behavior [i.e., probably such sins as sexual perversion], or [any person] who is a liar. But the only ones [allowed there] are those [whose names are] recorded in the Lamb’s book of life.