13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."
13 You scratch out God's Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this."
13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."
13 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Mark 7:13
Commentary on Mark 7:1-13
(Read Mark 7:1-13)
One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.