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.
Ver. 4. Washing of cups] βαπτισμους, baptisms. The Pharisees were great washers of the outside. Whence Justin Martyr calls them Baptists, by a peculiar epithet.