except they wash "Wash" here implies complete immersion as contrasted with the mere washing of the hands in Mark 7:3.

pots The original word thus translated is one of St Mark's Latinisms. It is a corruption of the Latin sextarius, a Roman measure both for liquids and dry things. In Tyndale and Cranmer's Versions it is translated "cruses." Earthen vessels were broken; those of metal and wood scoured and rinsed with water. See Leviticus 15:12.

tables Rather, banqueting-couches, triclinia, the benches or couches on which the Jews reclined at meals.

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