13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
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And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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