Mark 7:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.

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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 when they eat.”

Mark 7:5

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

Luke 11:38

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

Acts 10:28

and he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Acts 11:8

But I said, ‘No, Lord; for nothing common 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 any one who thinks it unclean.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.