Mark 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.

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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 break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

Acts 10:28

and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is improper for a Jew to associate with or to visit an outsider, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.

Acts 11:8

But I replied, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Romans 14:14

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.