Verse 3

For the pharisees and all the Iewes, except they wasshe their handes oft, eate not, obseruing the traditions of ye elders.

Referenced Verses

  • Mark 7:13 : 13 And make the worde of God of none effect, through your tradition, which ye haue ordeyned. And many such thinges do ye.
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 And profited in the Iewes religion, aboue many of my companions in mine owne nation, beyng a very feruent maynteyner of the traditions of my fathers.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest any man spoyle you through philosophie & vayne deceipt, after the tradition of men, and after the rudimentes of the worlde, and not after Christe.
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 Touche not, taste not, handle not? 22 Which all be in corruption, in abusyng after the commaundementes and doctrines of men. 23 Which thynges haue a shewe of wisdome, in superstition & humblenesse of mynde, and in hurtyng of the body, not in any honour to the satisfiyng of ye flesh.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Forasmuch as ye knowe, howe that ye were not redeemed with corruptible thynges, as siluer and golde, from your vayne conuersation which ye receaued by the tradition of the fathers:
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgresse the traditions of the elders? for they washe not their handes when they eate bread. 3 But he aunswered and sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse the commaundement of God, by your tradition? 4 For God comaunded, saying: honour father and mother, and he that curseth father or mother, let hym dye the death. 5 But ye say, whosoeuer shall say to father or mother: by the gyft that is offered of me, thou shalt be helped: 6 And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made the commaundement of God, of none effect, by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:5 : 5 Then asked hym the pharisees and scribes: Why walke not thy disciples accordyng to the traditio of the elders, but eate bread with vnwasshen handes?
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 Howebeit, in vayne do they worship me, teachyng doctrines, the commaundementes of men. 8 For ye laye the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of me: as the wasshing of pottes & cuppes. And many other such like thinges ye do. 9 And he sayde vnto them: Well, ye cast asyde the commaundement of God, to mayntayne your owne tradition. 10 For Moyses sayde, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, who so curseth father or mother, let him dye the death.