Mark 7:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with their hands 'defiled,' by which they meant unwashed.

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.

Acts 10:28

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

Acts 11:8

'No, Lord, I cannot,' I answered, 'for nothing 'defiled' or 'unclean' has ever passed my lips.'

Romans 14:14

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?

Revelation 21:27

'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'