"And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:" — Mark 7:13

Mark 7:13 · KJV

“And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:”

— Mark 7:13

Verse 12

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Verse 14

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Mark 7 — Context

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Cross References

Mark 7:9

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. {reject: or, frustrate}

Titus 1:14

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

Matthew 5:17-20

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, {it is} because {there is} no light in them. {no...: Heb. no morning}

Matthew 15:6

And honour not his father or his mother, {he shall be free}. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the LORD {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of the scribes {is} in vain. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, {but} they were counted as a strange thing.

Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. {oft: or, diligently: in the original, with the fist: Theophylact, up to the elbow}