"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
Mark 7:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they had seen that some of His disciples ate with common hands, that is, unwashed [with hands defiled and unhallowed, because they had not given them a ceremonial washing]– American Standard Version (1901) and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. Common English Bible They saw some of his disciples eating food with unclean hands. (They were eating without first ritually purifying their hands through washing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. English Standard Version 2016 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. |
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?"
But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: "Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?"
And he said to them: "You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.
But I said: 'Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.'
I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.
how much more, do you think, someone would deserve worse punishments, if he has tread upon the Son of God, and has treated the blood of the testament, by which he was sanctified, as unclean, and has acted with disgrace toward the Spirit of grace?
There shall not enter into it anything defiled, nor anything causing an abomination, nor anything false, but only those who have been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.