Mark 7:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen 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 thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

Luke 11:38

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

Acts 10:28

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Acts 11:8

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Hebrews 10:29

of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 21:27

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.