3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; …
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. …
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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