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Mark 7:2

Weymouth NT

They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with `unclean' (that is to say, unwashed) hands.

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»Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?«

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him:»Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?«

Now the Pharisee saw to his surprise that He did not wash His hands before breakfasting.

He said to them, »You know better than most that a Jew is strictly forbidden to associate with a Gentile or visit him; but God has taught me to call no one unholy or unclean.

»`On no account, Lord,' I replied, `for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.'«

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted the Spirit from whom comes grace?

And no unclean thing shall ever enter it, nor any one who is guilty of base conduct or tells lies, but only they whose names stand recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life.




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