Mark 7:3

New English Translation

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

Cross References

Mark 7:13

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.

John 2:6

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Galatians 1:14

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

Colossians 2:8

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,