this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.
Mark 7:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) You are making God’s message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus you are nullifying and making void and of no effect [the authority of] the Word of God through your tradition, which you [in turn] hand on. And many things of this kind you are doing. American Standard Version (1901) making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. Common English Bible In this way you do away with God’s word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that.” Catholic Public Domain Version rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do. |
this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.
you are not allowing him to do anything for his father or mother anymore.
Then He called the crowd to Him again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand [what I am saying].
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).
The Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”
And He said to them, “You are good at rejecting the commandment of God so you can keep your traditions.
I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you again, as I have done before, that those people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who reject the truth.