Mark 7:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

None of them will eat anything they buy in the market until it is washed. They also follow a lot of other teachings, such as washing cups, jugs, and bowls.

Cross References

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands, LORD, to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves clean! I am disgusted with your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong

Jeremiah 35:5

I set out some large bowls full of wine together with some cups, and then I said to the Rechabites, “Have some wine!”

Jeremiah 4:14

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

Matthew 23:25

You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, while inside there is nothing but greed and selfishness.

Matthew 23:26

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of a cup, and then the outside will also be clean.

Matthew 27:24

Pilate saw that there was nothing he could do and that the people were starting to riot. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of them and said, “I won't have anything to do with killing this man. You are the ones doing it!”

Mark 7:8

You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught.

John 2:6

At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about a hundred litres.

John 3:25

John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.

Hebrews 9:10

These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind.

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away.