Mark 7:13

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

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WEBBE

making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

BSB

Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

KJV

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

ASV

making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

BBE

Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

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ἀκυροῦντες akurountes making void G208 τὸν ton the G3588 λόγον logon word G3056 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 θεοῦ theou of God G2316 τῇ tēa for the G3588 παραδόσει paradosei tradition G3862 ὑμῶν humōn of you G4771 ᾗ hē which G3739 παρεδώκατε paredōkate you have handed down G3860 καὶ kai And G2532 παρόμοια paromoia like [things] G3946 τοιαῦτα toiauta such G5108 πολλὰ polla many G4183 ποιεῖτε.¶ poieite you do G4160

The early church

For the Pharisees, wishing to devour the offerings, instructed sons, when their parents asked for some of their property, to answer them, what thou hast asked of me is corban, that is, a gift, I have already offered it up to the Lord; thus the parents would not require it, as being offered up to the Lord, (and in that way profitable for their own salvation). Thus they deceived the sons into neglecting their parents, whilst they themselves devoured the offerings; with this therefore the Lord reproaches them, as transgressing the law of God for the sake of gain. Wherefore it goes on, Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye; transgressing, that is, the commands of God, that ye may observe the traditions of men.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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