John 3:25 Cross References - ERV

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

¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and [with] fire:

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 marketplace, except they wash themselves, they eat not: and many other things there be, 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?

⁸ Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

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

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

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

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²³ It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²¹ which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;