Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Mark 7:2 - Modern King James Version And when they saw some of His disciples eating loaves with unclean hands, that is with 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 disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat loaves with unwashed hands?
And when the Pharisee saw it, he was amazed that He had not first washed before dinner.
And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.
But I said, Not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing by itself is common; except to him who esteems anything to be common, it is common.
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.