Mark 7:2
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New International Version (©1984)
saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were "unclean," that is, unwashed.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

International Standard Version (©2008)
They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They saw that some of his disciples were unclean because they ate without washing their hands.

King James Bible
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

American King James Version
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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

Bible in Basic English
And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

Darby Bible Translation
and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled (that is to say with unwashed) hands, they found fault.

Weymouth New Testament
They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed)

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

Young's Literal Translation
and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands -- that is, unwashed -- eating bread, they found fault;

Geneva Study Bible

And when they saw some of his disciples {a} eat bread with {b} defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

(a) Literally, eat bread: an idiom which the Hebrews use, understanding bread to represent every type of food.

(b) For the Pharisees would not eat their food with unwashed hands, because they thought that their hands were defiled with the common handling of things; Mt 15:11,12.

People's New Testament

7:2 Eat bread with defiled... hands. Not dirty, but unwashed. The tradition of the elders (Mt 15:2 Mr 7:3,5) required them to always wash before eating lest they might have touched something ceremonially unclean.

King James Translators' Notes

defiled: or, common

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.


Matthew 15:2 "Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
Mark 7:5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?"
Luke 11:38 When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
Acts 10:28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.
Acts 11:8 "But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
Romans 14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Hebrews 10:29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Revelation 21:27 and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. (NASB ©1995)

Ate Bread Defiled Disciples Eat Eating Fault Food Found Hands Impure Noticed Unclean Unwashed Unwashen


And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

defiled. or, common. Ac 10:14,15,28

they found. Da 6:4,5 Mt 7:3-5 23:23-25

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