Mark 7:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Cross References

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

Mark 7:13

You nullify the word of God   by your tradition that you have handed   down. And you do many other similar things.’

Colossians 2:8

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition,  based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees  and the scribes  asked him, ‘Why don’t your disciples live  according to the tradition of the elders,  instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean  hands? ’

Luke 11:38

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing  , before dinner.

John 2:6

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.  Each contained eighty or one hundred and twenty litres.