Mark 7:12

You reckon that if a person says that to their father or mother, they don't have to help them.

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In The King James Version

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

In Context

11But you teach people that they can say to their parents, ‘I know that you need help and I would like to give you something, but I promised to give it to God. I am sorry, I cannot help you.’

13When they do this to their old people, they are rubbishing God and his law. And you do wrong things like this all the time. You think that your own rules are better than God's laws.”

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Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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