² “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they ^(A)do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the ^(A)tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with ^(B)defiled hands?”

³⁸ But when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first ^[a](A)ceremonially washed before the ^[b]meal.

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

²⁸ And he said to them, “You yourselves know how ^(A)unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet ^(B)God has shown me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.

⁸ But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

¹⁴ I know and am convinced ^[a]in the Lord Jesus that ^(A)nothing is defiled in itself; but to him who ^(B)considers anything to be defiled, to him it is defiled.

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

²⁷ And ^(A)nothing defiled, 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.