“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they (A)do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

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“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”(A)

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And the Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk in accordance with the (A)tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with (B)[a]unholy hands?”

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  1. Mark 7:5 Lit common; i.e., ritually unclean

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders(A) instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

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38 When the Pharisee saw this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first [a](A)ceremonially washed before the [b]meal.

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  1. Luke 11:38 Lit baptized; here, immersed the hands
  2. Luke 11:38 Or lunch

38 But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.(A)

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14 But Peter said, “By no means, (A)Lord, for (B)I have never eaten anything [a]unholy and unclean.”

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  1. Acts 10:14 Or profane; lit common

14 “Surely not, Lord!”(A) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”(B)

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28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is (A)forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a [a]foreigner; and yet (B)God has shown me that I am not to call any person [b]unholy or unclean.

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  1. Acts 10:28 I.e., Gentile
  2. Acts 10:28 Or profane; lit common

28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.(A) But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.(B)

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But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing [a]unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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  1. Acts 11:8 Or profane; lit common

“I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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14 I know and am convinced [a]in the Lord Jesus that (A)nothing is [b]unclean in itself; but to the one who (B)thinks something is [c]unclean, to that person it is [d]unclean.

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  1. Romans 14:14 Lit through
  2. Romans 14:14 I.e., ceremonially unclean; lit common
  3. Romans 14:14 I.e., ceremonially unclean; lit common
  4. Romans 14:14 I.e., ceremonially unclean; lit common

14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)

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29 (A)How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve (B)who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean (C)the blood of the covenant (D)by which he was sanctified, and has (E)insulted the Spirit of grace?

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29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God(A) underfoot,(B) who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant(C) that sanctified them,(D) and who has insulted the Spirit(E) of grace?(F)

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27 and (A)nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those [a]whose names are (B)written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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  1. Revelation 21:27 Lit who have been written

27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,(A) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(B)

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