Verse 25

There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purifying.

Referenced Verses

  • John 2:6 : 6 Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.
  • Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
  • Heb 6:2 : 2 of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Matt 3:11 : 11 I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and [in] fire:
  • Mark 7:2-5 : 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and [when they come] from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels .) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
  • Mark 7:8 : 8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.