Thematic Bible: Multiplied by traditions
Thematic Bible
Purifications or baptisms » Multiplied by traditions
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."
Verse Concepts
For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way, and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.