Mark 7:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

(For the Pharises, and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the Elders.

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  • Mark 7:13 : 13 Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 And profited in the Iewish religion aboue many of my companions of mine owne nation, and was much more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest there be any man that spoile you through philosophie, & vaine deceit, through the traditions of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 As, Touch not, Taste not, Handle not. 22 Which al perish with the vsing, and are after the commandements and doctrines of men. 23 Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers,
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? For they wash not their hands when they eate bread. 3 But he answered & said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commaundement of God by your tradition? 4 For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoeuer shal say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite, 6 Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:5 : 5 Then asked him the Pharises and Scribes, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate meate with vnwashen hands?
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men. 8 For ye lay the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe. 9 And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition. 10 For Moses sayd, Honour thy father and thy mother: and Whosoeuer shall speake euill of father or mother, let him die the death.

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  • Mark 7:4-9
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    4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eate not: and many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue, as the washing of cups, and pots, and of brasen vessels, and of beds.)

    5 Then asked him the Pharises and Scribes, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate meate with vnwashen hands?

    6 Then hee answered and sayd vnto them, Surely Esay hath prophecied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with lippes, but their heart is farre away from me.

    7 But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men.

    8 For ye lay the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe.

    9 And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition.

  • Mark 7:1-2
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    1 Then gathered vnto him the Pharises, and certaine of the Scribes which came from Hierusalem.

    2 And when they sawe some of his disciples eate meate with common hands, (that is to say, vnwashen) they complained.

  • Matt 15:1-3
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    1 Then came to Iesus the Scribes and Pharises, which were of Hierusalem, saying,

    2 Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? For they wash not their hands when they eate bread.

    3 But he answered & said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commaundement of God by your tradition?

  • Matt 15:20
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    20 These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

  • Luke 11:37-39
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    37 And as hee spake, a certaine Pharise besought him to dine with him: and hee went in, and sate downe at table.

    38 And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.

    39 And the Lord saide to him, In deede yee Pharises make cleane the outside of the cuppe, and of the platter: but the inwarde part is full of rauening and wickednesse.

  • Matt 23:25-26
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    25 Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.

    26 Thou blinde Pharise, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be cleane also.

  • Mark 7:18-19
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    18 And he sayde vnto them, What? Are ye without vnderstanding also? Doe ye not knowe that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into a man, cannot defile him,

    19 Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meates?

  • Mark 7:12-13
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    12 So ye suffer him no more to doe any thing for his father, or his mother,

    13 Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.

  • Lev 22:6
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    6 The person that hath touched such, shall therefore be vncleane vntill the euen, and shall not eat of ye holy things, except he haue washed his flesh with water.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2 And certaine of the Pharises sayde vnto them, Why doe ye that which is not lawfull to doe on the Sabbath dayes?

  • Matt 23:3
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    3 All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and doe: but after their workes doe not: for they say, and doe not.

  • Mark 2:24
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    24 And the Pharises saide vnto him, Beholde, why doe they on the Sabbath day, that which is not lawfull?

  • Luke 7:30
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    30 But the Pharises and the expounders of the Law despised the counsell of God against themselues, and were not baptized of him.

  • Luke 11:41-42
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    41 Therefore, giue almes of those thinges which you haue, and beholde, all thinges shall be cleane to you.

    42 But wo be to you, Pharises: for ye tithe the mynt and the rewe, and all maner herbs, and passe ouer iudgement & the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to haue left the other vndone.

  • Matt 15:9-12
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    9 But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.

    10 Then hee called the multitude vnto him, and said to them, Heare and vnderstand.

    11 That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

    12 Then came his disciples, and saide vnto him, Perceiuest thou not, that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying?

  • Matt 12:2
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    2 And when the Pharises sawe it, they saide vnto him, Beholde, thy disciples doe that which is not lawfull to doe vpon the Sabbath.

  • Luke 7:36
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    36 And one of the Pharises desired him that hee would eate with him: and hee went into the Pharises house, and sate downe at table.

  • Mark 7:15
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    15 There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.

  • Lev 15:11
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    11 Likewise whomesoeuer hee toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not washed his handes in water) shal wash his clothes and wash himselfe in water, and shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.

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    10 Which only stood in meates and drinkes, and diuers washings, and carnal rites, which were inioyned, vntill the time of reformation.

  • Exod 30:19
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    19 For Aaron and his sonnes shall wash their hands and their feete thereat.

  • Luke 5:33
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    33 Then they said vnto him, Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, & pray, & the disciples of the Pharises also, but thine eate and drinke?

  • Exod 40:31
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    31 So Moses and Aaron, and his sonnes washed their handes and their feete thereat.

  • Exod 30:21
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    21 So they shall wash their handes and their feete that they die not: and this shall be to them an ordinance for euer, both vnto him and to his seede throughout their generations.

  • Luke 6:7
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    7 And the Scribes & Pharises watched him, whether he would heale on the Sabbath day, that they might finde an accusation against him.

  • Matt 23:5
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    5 All their workes they doe for to be seene of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the frindges of their garments,

  • Matt 15:6
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    6 Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

  • Luke 14:1
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    1 And it came to passe that when he was entred into the house of one of the chiefe Pharises on the Sabbath day, to eate bread, they watched him.

  • Lev 17:16
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    16 But if he wash them not, nor wash his flesh, then he shall beare his iniquitie.

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    11 And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?

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    6 And the Pharises departed, & straightway gathered a councill with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.

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    12 Then vnderstood they that he had not said that they should beware of the leauen of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharises, and Sadduces.

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    19 The flesh also that toucheth any vncleane thing, shall not be eaten, but burnt with fire: but of this flesh all that be cleane shal eate thereof.