John 2:6 Cross References - WEB

⁶ Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

² Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. ³ (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. ⁴ They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) ⁵ The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

²⁵ Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

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

¹⁰ being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

¹⁹ For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

²² let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,