Mark 7:13
And ye reject the word of God, on account of the tradition which ye hand down. And many things like these, ye do.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
12then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother.
14And Jesus called all the multitude, and said to them: Hear, all ye; and understand.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17Do not suppose that I have come to subvert the law or the prophets: I have come not to subvert, but to fulfill.
Mark 7:3For all the Jews and the Pharisees, unless they carefully wash their hands do not eat; because they hold fast the tradition of the Elders.
Galatians 5:21envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all the like things. And they who perpetrate these things, as I have before told you, and also now tell you, do 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 →