Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.
but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
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