Mark 7:3

Easy To Read Version

The Pharisees and all the Jews never eat before washing their hands in this special way. They do this to follow the teaching given to them by their great people that lived before them.

Cross References

Mark 7:13

So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think that it is more important to follow those rules you teach people. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees {\cf2\super [82]} and teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Your followers don’t follow the rules given to us by our great people that lived before us. Your followers eat their food with hands that are not clean. Why do they do this?”

Luke 11:38

But the Pharisee was surprised when he saw that Jesus did not wash his hands {\cf2\super [209]} first before the meal.

John 2:6

In that place there were six large waterpots made of stone. The Jews used waterpots like these in their washing ceremonies. {\cf2\super [34]} Each waterpot held about 20 or 30 gallons.

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion. I did better than most other Jews my own age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the old rules. These rules were the customs we got from our ancestors. {\cf2\super [5]}

Colossians 2:8

Be sure that no person leads you away with false ideas and words that mean nothing. Those ideas come from people, not Christ. Those ideas are the worthless ideas of people in the world.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that \{in the past\} you were living in a worthless way. You got that way of living from the people who lived before you. But you were saved from that way of living. You were bought, but not with things that ruin like gold or silver.