Mark 7:13
and ye break the word of God by your tradition, that ye have given; and ye do many [other] such things.
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In Context
14And he again called the people, and said to them, Ye all hear me, and understand.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20It is to go to the law more rather, and to the witnessing, that if they say not after this word, morrowtide light shall not be to them. ( Say thou, It is better to go to the Law, and to the testimony, and if they say not after this word, then the light is not in them.)
Ezekiel 18:14That if he begetteth a son, which seeth all the sins of his father, which he did, and dreadeth, and doeth none like those; (And if he begetteth a son, who seeth all his father’s sins, which he did, and feareth, and doeth none like them;)
Matthew 5:17Do not ye deem, [or guess], (or Do not think), that I came to undo [or to destroy] the law, or the prophets; I came not to undo [or to destroy] the law, but to fulfill (it).
Mark 7:3For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, [no] but they wash often their hands, holding the traditions of (the) elder men.
Galatians 5:21envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God, (or for they who do such things, shall not possess 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 →