Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
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- Mark 7:3–4 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
- Matthew 15:2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
- Matthew 23:25–26 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.