Mark 7:13
setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,
14And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, 'Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'
Ezekiel 18:14And — lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,
Matthew 5:17'Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets — I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;
Mark 7:3for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders,
Galatians 5:21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
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 →