Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
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In Context
12ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
14And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
Cross References
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Ezekiel 18:14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father`s sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;
Matthew 5:17Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mark 7:3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
Galatians 5:21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things 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 →