John 2:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ Now there were six water pots of stone, containing two or three measures apiece, placed there for the Jewish rites of purifying.

² resort to him in a body, and seeing some of his disciples eating bread with unclean, that is with unwashen hands, they found fault. ³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, holding the doctrine of the elders, do not eat with out washing the hands with the doubled fist: ⁴ and if they come from the market they do not eat without dipping them. And there are many other usages which they have adopted, such as the dipping of cups, and pots, and brass vessels, and couches. ⁵ Therefore the Pharisees and the Scribes ask him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the doctrines of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

²⁵ There was therefore a dispute between some of the disciples of John, and the Jews, respecting purification,

²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed

² of the doctrine concerning baptism, and the laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment, proceed to the consecration.

¹⁰ they being things imposed barely for meats, and drinks, and divers baptisms, and rules of conduct respecting flesh, until the time of reformation:

¹⁹ for when every precept according to law was rehearsed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and the Book, and he sprinkled it on all the people

²² let us come with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water.