Mark 7:8

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

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KJV

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

ASV

Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

YLT

for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'

DBT

[For], leaving the commandment ofGod, ye hold what is delivered by men [to keep] — washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.

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For the tradition of the elders themselves, which they pretended to observe from the law, was contrary to the law given by Moses. Wherefore also Esaias declares: "Thy dealers mix the wine with water," showing that the elders were in the habit of mingling a watered tradition with the simple command of God; that is, they set up a spurious law, and one contrary to the [true] law; as also the Lord made plain, when He said to them, "Why do ye transgress the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition?"

Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book 4, 202patristic

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For laying aside the commandment of God,.... Meaning not any particular commandment, but all the commandments of God, the whole written law; to which they preferred the oral law, or the traditions of the elders, and the decisions of their doctors. So the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read, "the commandments of God".

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

Washing of pots and cups, etc. - This whole clause is wanting in BL, five others, and the Coptic: one MS. omits this and the whole of the ninth verse. The eighth verse is not found in the parallel place of Mat 15:7-9.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

Note, It is the mischief of impositions, that too often they who are zealous for them, have little zeal for the essential duties of religion, but can contentedly see them laid aside.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, Superstition is an endless thing. If one human invention and institution be admitted, though seemingly ever so innocent, as this of washing hands, behold, a troop comes, a door is opened for many other such things.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Mark 7:3–4
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
John 3:25
Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?
Malachi 2:9
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?
leads to
- Exodus 34:23
  Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Exodus 23:17
  Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Isaiah 58:1–2
  “Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Psalms 40:6
  Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Micah 6:8
  He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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