John 3:25
King James Version (KJV)
Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
American Standard Version (ASV)
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purifying.
World English Bible (WEB)
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
John 3:25 Cross References
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:
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
