Thematic Bible: Multiplied by traditions
Thematic Bible
Purifications or baptisms » Multiplied by traditions
why do your disciples violate the tradition of our ancestors, in not washing their hands when they eat bread?
Verse Concepts
for the Pharisees, and the Jews in general, in pursuance of their antient traditions, never eat till they have wash'd their hands up to their elbows. nay, when they have been at any publick place, they never eat till they have washed. they observe besides several traditions, such as the washing of cups, pots, brass vessels, and beds.