Mark 7:13 (BSB)

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

From Mark 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Mark 7:13

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 7:1-23: One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God's making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 7:13: Making the word of God of none effect, through your tradition,.... Beza says, in his most ancient copy it is read, "your foolish tradition"; and such it was indeed, that a vow made rashly, and in a passion, or if ever so deliberately entered into, should be more binding upon a man than the law of God; that rather than break this, he should transgress...
  • Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 7:13: Your tradition - D, later Syriac in the margin, Saxon, and all the Itala but one, add τῃ μωρᾳ, by your Foolish tradition, your foolish law: - Anglo-Saxon.