Cross references

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

Mark 7:5 BSB

Mark 7:5 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Acts 21:21 (4 votes) and 2 Thessalonians 3:6 (4 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Deuteronomy 4 to 2 Thessalonians 3.

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Which verses does Mark 7:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Acts 21:214 votes

    But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

  2. Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

  3. “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

  4. When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” …

  5. Acts 21:243 votes

    Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.

  6. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  7. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

  8. and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed. Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

  9. For we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives, accomplishing nothing, but being busybodies.

Which verses point to Mark 7:5?

The 10 strongest of 15.