Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have handed down; and many such things ye do.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12ye suffer him no longer to do anything for his father or his mother;
14And again calling the multitude to him, he said to them, Hearken to me all of you, and understand.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20To the word, to the revelation! If they speak not according to this, For them no bright morning shall arise.
Ezekiel 18:14Yet lo, if he have a son that seeth all the sins which his father committed, that seeth them and doeth not such like,
Matthew 5:17Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.
Mark 7:3(for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, do not eat, holding fast the tradition of the elders;
Galatians 5:21envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also told you in time past, that they who practise such things shall not 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 →