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Mark 7:2

World English Bible

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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Mark 7:2 in other translations

and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

Mark 7:2 · American Standard Version

Mark 7:2 in context

  1. 1Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
  2. 2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
  3. 3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
  4. 4They 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.)