John 3:25
Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';
John 2:6
Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.
Matthew 3:11
I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
Mark 7:2-5
They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands.
Mark 7:8
You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.
Hebrews 6:2
with instruction about ablutions and the laying on of hands, about the resurrection of the dead and eternal punishment.
Hebrews 9:10
since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.
Hebrews 9:13-14
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on defiled persons, give them a holiness that bears on bodily purity,
Hebrews 9:23
Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ