⁶ Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

²⁵ Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

² And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

³ Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

² The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.

²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

¹⁹ For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,