Thematic Bible: Multiplied by traditions
Thematic Bible
Purifications or baptisms » Multiplied by traditions
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."
For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers, and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.