Bible Strands
Mark 7:13
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the crowd and his critics immediately after explaining how the Corban tradition prevents sons from supporting their parents. He speaks to the assembled listeners right before turning to teach them directly in Mark 7:14.
The words — ἀκυροῦντες (akurountes) means "making void," and παραδόσει (paradosei) means "tradition." The text states that handing down a tradition actively nullifies the word of God.
The thread — Mark 7:9 repeats the charge that maintaining human tradition sets aside God's command, while Titus 1:14 records a warning against ignoring Jewish myths or the commands of men. Isaiah 8:20 provides the counter-standard by directing all inquiry to the law and the testimony.
Why it lands — The text demands that readers evaluate every practice against the written word rather than accepted customs. It requires choosing obedience to God's command over inherited human rules.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Cross-references
- Mark 7:9 He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
- Titus 1:14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
- Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
- Jeremiah 8:8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
- Hosea 8:12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
- Matthew 15:6 he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
- Ezekiel 18:14 Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
- Mark 7:3 Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
- Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.