Thematic Bible: Purifications or baptisms


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and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses, Verse ConceptsBaptism, significance ofCleansing The BodyA Way Through The Red SeaBaptismThe Sea










For when Moses had told all the regulations of the Law to all the people, he took calves' and goats' blood, along with water, crimson wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the roll of the Law and all the people, Verse ConceptsCrimsonBranches, Types OfSprinklingWoolRed MaterialSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats






"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands." Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintsLaw, Jesus Christ's Attitude ToTraditionsPeople UnwashedBreaking Man's LawHow People EatFinding Fault With Jesuselders

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.

Join them, undergo the rites of purification with them, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will understand that there is no truth in the stories about you, but that you yourself observe the Law. Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

Then Paul joined the men and went through the rites of purification with them and the next day went to the Temple to give notice of the time when, upon the offering of the sacrifice for each one of them, their days of purification would be over. Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfGiving InformationPurifying Oneselfaccomplishment




And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order. But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary, read more.
taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance.





For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically, Verse ConceptsLimitednessBullsAshesSprinklingHeifersSprinkling BloodLimitations Of The BodyAshes Of SacrificesPurifying OneselfSacrificing CattleSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats



So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification. Verse ConceptsJohn The BaptistRitual WashingDiscussionsDisciples Of John The BaptistPurifying Oneself

Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons. Verse ConceptsJews, TheJudaismRitual WashingWashingWaterWeights And Measures, LiquidSix ThingsWater ContainersStone ItemsMeans Of PurifyingPurifying OneselfOther Volume Measures