“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Mark 7:2 - Y'all Version Bible And they saw some of his disciples eating bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed. 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 disobey the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
But the Pharisee marveled when he noticed that Jesus did not first ceremonially wash before dinner.
He said to them, “Y’all know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit one of another ethnicity, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any human profane or unclean.
But I said, ‘“Never, Lord! For nothing profane or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself. But if anyone considers something to be unclean, then it is unclean for them.
How much more severe a punishment do y’all think someone deserves who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has treated as unclean the blood of the covenant through which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Nothing profane will ever enter it, and no one who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s scroll of life.