Bible Verses About Purification: Traditions of the elders concerning

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

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?

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

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.