⁶ Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.

²⁵ There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purifying.

¹⁰ `being' only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

² and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

⁴ and `when they come' from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

² of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

²² let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

¹⁹ For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,