Mark 7:13
By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God's word null and void. You do many other things like this.”
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12then you don't permit them to do anything further for their mother or father.
14Jesus called the crowd to him again and told them, “Please, everyone listen to me and understand.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.
Ezekiel 18:14Now what if this man has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed. He sees them but doesn't do the same.
Matthew 5:17Don't think I came to abolish the law or the writings of the prophets. I didn't come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
Mark 7:3(The Pharisees and all Jews don't eat until they wash their hands, following the tradition of their ancestors.
Galatians 5:21envy, drunkenness, feasting, and similar things. As I warned you before so I warn you again: nobody who behaves like this will inherit the kingdom of God.
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 →