6 Bible Verses about Ablution
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For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,
The Pharisees met about Him, and also some scribes who had come from Jerusalem. They had noticed that some of His disciples were in the habit of eating their meals without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to make them clean. For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,read more.
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. And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"
So when He had washed their feet and had put on His clothes and taken His place at the table, He said to them again: "Do you understand what I have done to you?
The Pharisee noticed that He did not first wash before lunch, and was surprised.
of teaching about ceremonial washings and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.
Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel which was around His waist.
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Ablution » Of the feet
Ablution » of priests
Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of
For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,
Ablution » Of the hands, as a token of innocency
So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."
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
The Pharisee noticed that He did not first wash before lunch, and was surprised. But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.
Ablution » For defilement » Bloody
Ablution » For defilement » Of lepers
Ablution » Of infants
Ablution » Of the face
But whenever you, follower of mine, fast, perfume your head and wash your face,
Ablution » Of the dead
Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died. They washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.
