and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash.[a] And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as (A)the washing of (B)cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.[b])

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:4 Greek unless they baptize; some manuscripts unless they purify themselves
  2. Mark 7:4 Some manuscripts omit and dining couches

10 but deal only with (A)food and drink and (B)various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

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25 (A)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For (B)you clean the outside of (C)the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of (D)greed and self-indulgence.

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(A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded.

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Now there were six stone water jars there (A)for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty (B)gallons.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:6 Greek two or three measures (metrētas); a metrētēs was about 10 gallons or 35 liters

38 The Pharisee was astonished to see (A)that he did not first wash before dinner. 39 And the Lord said to him, (B)“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of (C)greed and wickedness.

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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
    that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
    lodge within you?

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16 (A)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(B)cease to do evil,

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But (A)if we walk in the light, (B)as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and (C)the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that (A)a riot was beginning, he took water and (B)washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of (C)this man's blood;[a] (D)see to it yourselves.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:24 Some manuscripts this righteous blood, or this righteous man's blood

I (A)wash my hands in innocence
    and go around your altar, O Lord,

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30 If I wash myself with snow
    and (A)cleanse my hands with lye,
31 yet you will plunge me into a pit,
    and my own clothes will (B)abhor me.

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25 Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over (A)purification.

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