Mark 7:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

Cross References

Galatians 1:14

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

Mark 7:13

That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

Colossians 2:8

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,

John 2:6

Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.