Mark 7:2 - English Majority Text Version 2009

² Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with ceremonially unclean, that is, with unwashed [hands], they found fault.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

Mark 7:2 Cross References

Matthew 15:2

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before the meal.

Acts 10:28

and he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a Gentile; and yet God has shown to me that I should call no man common or unclean;

Acts 11:8

"But I said, 'By no means, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Hebrews 10:29

By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 21:27

But there shall by no means enter into it any common [thing], and the [one] doing an abomination and a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.