From Nave’s Topical Bible
Washing
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 9Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Of hands, a token of innocenceDeuteronomy 21:6Psalms 26:6Psalms 73:13Matthew 27:24
- See Ablution
- See Purification
- FIGURATIVE
- Of regenerationPsalms 51:7Proverbs 30:12Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 4:4Zechariah 13:11 Corinthians 6:11Ephesians 5:26Titus 3:5
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 21:6
Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:61 voice
And all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man,.... The whole court of judicature belonging to it, all the magistracy of it; even though there were an hundred of them, Maimonides (x) says: shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: in token of their innocence, and this they did not only for themselves, but for the whole city, being the representatives of it; see Psa 26:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
Commentary on Psalms 26:61 voice
You have seen the deacon who gives to the priest water to wash, and to the presbyters who stand around God's altar. He gave it not at all because of bodily defilement; it is not that, for we did not enter the church at first with defiled bodies. But the washing of hands is a symbol that you ought to be pure from all sinful and unlawful deeds; for since the hands are a symbol of action, by washing them, it is evident, we represent the purity and blamelessness of our conduct.
Cyril of Jerusalem· MYSTAGOGICAL LECTURES 5:2, 386Patristic
- Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Commentary on Psalms 51:72 voices
After this white robes were given to you as a sign that you were putting off the covering of sins and putting on the chaste veil of innocence, of which the prophet said, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow."
Ambrose of Milan· On the Mysteries 7:34, 397Patristic
Purge me with hyssop,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" (f); or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the destroying angel might pass over them, Exo 12:22; and in the cleansing of the leper, Lev 14:4; and in the purification of one that was unclean by the touch of a dead body, &c.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Commentary on Psalms 73:131 voice
And therefore I conferred with my heart and I said to myself, "if I will speak thus, that I have justified my heart in vain," and the voice of God replied to me and said, "Behold the generation of your children, to which I have made distribution." This means: Behold, you find in the Scriptures, O you son of Adam, that I have made distribution to the generation of your children, that wealth may be granted to the wicked simply by chance and not from some merit.
Ambrose of Milan· Interrogation of Job and David, Book 3, Chapter VI, 397Patristic
- Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Commentary on Proverbs 30:121 voice
A generation that seems pure to itself, etc. Because God scatters the bones of men pleasing to themselves.
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Isaiah 1:16
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Commentary on Isaiah 1:161 voice
(Verse 16.) Wash yourselves, be clean. For the previous sacrifices, and burnt offerings, and the fat of the rich, and the blood of bulls and goats: and for the incense and new moons, sabbaths, feast days and fasts, calends and other solemnities, the religion of the Gospel is pleasing to me: that you may be baptized in my blood through the washing of regeneration, which alone can forgive sins. For unless one is born again of water and the Spirit, they will not enter the kingdom of heaven (John 3:5) .
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 4:4
when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Commentary on Isaiah 4:41 voice
(Verse 4.) When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from its midst with the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, then the remnant of Israel shall be saved when their sins are forgiven in the baptism of the Savior and that blood is cleansed, the blood that the wandering people invoked upon themselves saying: His blood be upon us and upon our children (Matthew 27:25).
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Zechariah 13:1
“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
Commentary on Zechariah 13:11 voice
(Chapter 13, Verse 1) On that day there will be a flowing fountain for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for cleansing from sin and impurity. LXX: On that day there will be an open fountain for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for transformation and purification.
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420Patristic
- Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
Commentary on Matthew 27:242 voices
(Verse 24) But Pilate, seeing that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a tumult was taking place, took water and washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man: you shall see.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
When Pilate saw he could prevail nothing,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 6:11
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:111 voice
[The apostle], foreseeing the wicked speeches of unbelievers, has particularized the works which he terms carnal; and he explains himself, lest any room for doubt be left to those who do dishonestly pervert his meaning, thus saying in the Epistle to the Galatians: "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are adulteries, fornications, uncleanness, luxuriousness, idolatries, witchcrafts, hatreds, contentions jealousies, wraths, emulations, animosities, irritable speeches, dissensions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, carousings, and such like; of which I warn you, as also I have warned you, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Irenaeus· Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 5, 202Patristic
- Ephesians 5:26
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Commentary on Ephesians 5:261 voice
" What more disgraceful than immodesties? If, moreover, even from a "brother" who "walketh idly" he warns the Thessalonians to withdraw themselves, how much more withal from a fornicator!
Tertullian· On Modesty, 220Patristic
- Titus 3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Commentary on Titus 3:52 voices
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jerome· Commentary on Titus, 420Patristic
Who is the one who is born of the Spirit and is made Spirit? It is one who is renewed in the Spirit of his mind. It is one who is regenerated by water and the Holy Spirit. We receive the hope of eternal life through the laver of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. And elsewhere the apostle Peter says: "You shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit." For who is he that is baptized with the Holy Spirit but he who is born again through water and the Holy Spirit?
Ambrose of Milan· On the Holy Spirit 3.10.64, 397Patristic