Mark 7:13
Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12you exempt him from doing any service for his father or mother.
14Then again he called the crowd to him and said.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17"Do not suppose that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mark 7:3For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders;
Galatians 5:21envy, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins 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 →