6 Bible Verses about Ablution
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(for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders:
And there came together to him the Pharisees, and some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem: and when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands: (for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders:read more.
and when they come from the market, they do not eat, unless they immerse themselves. And there are many other things, which they have received to hold, as the immersion of cups and pitchers and brazen vessels and beds:) then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?
Therefore, when he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, he reclined at table again, and said to them: Do you understand what I have done for you?
And when the Pharisee saw it, he wondered that he had not first immersed himself before dinner.
of the teaching with respect to immersions, and of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal condemnation.
Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
From Thematic Bible
Ablution » Of the feet
Ablution » of priests
Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of
(for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders:
Ablution » Of the hands, as a token of innocency
When Pilate saw that he gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; you will see to it.
Ablution » Of burnt offerings
Ablution » Of the hands
Ablution » For defilement » Those having eaten that which died
Ablution » Traditional forms of, not observed by jesus
And when the Pharisee saw it, he wondered that he had not first immersed himself before dinner. And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Ablution » For defilement » Bloody
Ablution » For defilement » Of lepers
Ablution » Of infants
Ablution » Of the face
Ablution » Of the dead
And it came to pass, in those days, that she was taken sick, and died. And when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
