Verse 4

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.)

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 23:25 : 25 "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.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Luke 11:38-39 : 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. 39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
  • John 2:6 : 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • John 3:25 : 25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.