9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
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As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. …
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
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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