Mark 7:3

New Living Translation

(The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.

Cross References

Mark 7:13

And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”

Luke 11:38

His host was amazed to see that he sat down to eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony required by Jewish custom.

John 2:6

Standing nearby were six stone water jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons.

Galatians 1:14

I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.

Colossians 2:8

Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value.