Mark 7:13
You are making the commandment of God void by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do.”
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In Context
12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother.
14He called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not say such things, it is because they have no light of dawn. 1
Ezekiel 18:14But behold! Suppose there is a man who bears a son, and his son sees all the sins that his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do those things.
Matthew 5:17Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have come not to destroy them, but to fulfill them.
Mark 7:3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, because they hold to the tradition of the elders.
Galatians 5:21envy, drunkenness, drunken celebrations, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will 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 →