Mark 7:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Mark 7:5

3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands¹ in a special way, holding the ^atradition of the elders.

4 When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.

5 ^aThen the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”

6 He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you ^ahypocrites, as it is written:
^b‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.

7 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8 For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men —the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”

9 He said to them, “All too well ^ayou reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

10 For Moses said, ^a‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ^b‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

11 But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, ^a“Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God),

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Definitions of words in Mark 7:5:

Bread {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Bread {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Pharisees {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Pharisees {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Pharisees {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Scribes {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Scribes {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Tradition {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Tradition {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Walk {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Other definition entries containing Mark 7:5:

Washing {Easton's}
Holiness {I.S.B.E.}

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