Mark 7:13
cancelling the word of God by your tradition which ye have delivered. And, many such similar things, are ye doing!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
12no longer, do ye suffer him to do, aught, for his father or his mother,—
14And, again calling near the multitude, he was saying unto them—Hearken to me, all! and understand:
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, [It is], because they have no dawning day.
Ezekiel 18:14But lo! he hath begotten a son, Who hath considered all the sins of his father which he hath done,- Yea he hath considered and not done like them:
Matthew 5:17Do not think, that I came to pull down the law, or the prophets,—I came not to pull down, but to fulfil.
Mark 7:3For, the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless with care they wash their hands, eat not, holding fast the tradition of the elders;
Galatians 5:21envyings, drunkenness, revellings;—and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,—that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.
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 →