8For 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.
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. …
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
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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