Thematic Bible: Multiplied by traditions
Thematic Bible
Purifications or baptisms » Multiplied by traditions
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders; and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)