Mark 7:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash, and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.)

Cross References

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Jeremiah 35:5

Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups, and I said to them, “Have some wine.”

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Matthew 23:25

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:26

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside also may become clean.

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”

Mark 7:8

“You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

John 2:6

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

John 3:25

Now a discussion about purification arose between John’s disciples and a Jew.

Hebrews 9:10

but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 John 1:7

but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.