Mark 7:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Mark 7:2

Defilement Comes from Within

1 Then ^athe Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem.

2 Now¹ when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with ^aunwashed hands, they found fault.

3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands¹ in a special way, holding the ^atradition of the elders.

4 When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.

5 ^aThen the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”

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They had baptismals or whatever you want to call them, called mikvahs, and people could walk down the steps of the mikvah [which is filled with water] and pass through and walk up the steps on the other side and be clean. And to be clean enough in a ritual sense to go to the Temple and offer their sacrifices or whatever they needed to be ritually cleaned for. They did this in the same way that they would wash their hands before eating, and for the same reason. As Mark 7:2-4 says they wash their cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches for a ritual purpose.

Excerpted from John 3:16 in Context (Part Two)

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