*Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread.*
Mark 7:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Now when they saw some of his talmidim eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. 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. 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. 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. |
*Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread.*
The Perushim and the scribes asked him, *Why don't your talmidim walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?*
When the Parush saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
He said to them, *You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.