Mark 7:12

Amplified Bible

then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother [since helping them would violate his vow of Corban];

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

King James Version (1611)
And ye suffer him no more to doe ought for his father, or his mother:

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

English Standard Version
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

New American Standard Bible
you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother;

New Century Version
You no longer let that person use that money for his father or his mother.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;

Legacy Standard Bible
you no longer leave him to do anything for his father or his mother;

Berean Standard Bible
he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

Contemporary English Version
You won't let those people help their parents.

Complete Jewish Bible
then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

Darby Translation
And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;

Easy-to-Read Version
You are telling people that they do not have to do anything for their father or mother.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So ye suffer him no more to doe any thing for his father, or his mother,

George Lamsa Translation
And yet you do not let him do anything for his father or mother.

Good News Translation
they are excused from helping their father or mother.

Lexham English Bible
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,

Literal Translation
And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,

American Standard Version
ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

Bible in Basic English
You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

Hebrew Names Version
and you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

International Standard Version
you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

Etheridge Translation
and you permit him not to do any thing for his father and his mother.

Murdock Translation
then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so ye suffer hym no more to do ought for his father or his mother.

English Revised Version
ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

World English Bible
and you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

Weymouth's New Testament
And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ouer ye suffren not hym do ony thing to fadir or modir,

Update Bible Version
you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother;

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother;

New English Translation
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

New King James Version
then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,

New Living Translation
In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.

New Life Bible
You are not making him do anything for his father and mother.

New Revised Standard
then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
no longer, do ye suffer him to do, aught, for his father or his mother, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother,

Revised Standard Version
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And so ye soffre him no more to do ought for his father or his mother

Young's Literal Translation
and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thus ye suffre him nomore to do ought for his father or his mother,

Mace New Testament (1729)
you discharge him from the obligation of doing any thing for his father or his mother.

Simplified Cowboy Version
just say that the money or food is a gift to God.

Contextual Overview

¹Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes came from Jerusalem and gathered around Him, ²and they had seen that some of His disciples ate their bread with [ceremonially] impure hands, that is, unwashed [and defiled according to Jewish religious ritual]. ³(For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, holding firmly to the traditions of the elders; ⁴and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves [completely according to ritual]; and there are many other things [oral, man-made laws and traditions handed down to them] which they follow diligently, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper utensils.) ⁵So the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, "Why do Your disciples not live their lives according to the tradition of the elders, but [instead] eat their bread with [ceremonially] unwashed hands?" ⁶He replied, "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), as it is written [in Scripture], 'THESE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME. ⁷-'THEY WORSHIP ME IN VAIN [their worship is meaningless and worthless, a pretense], TEACHING THE PRECEPTS OF MEN AS DOCTRINES [giving their traditions equal weight with the Scriptures].' ⁸"You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men." ⁹He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations. ¹⁰"For Moses said, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER [with respect and gratitude]'; and, 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF HIS FATHER OR MOTHER MUST BE PUT TO DEATH';

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Matthew 15:5 - It is 2 Timothy 3:2 - disobedient

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."

Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.

Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9
"When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water.

Deuteronomy 9:18
"Then, as before, I fell down before the LORD for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10
"And I stayed on the mountain, like the first time, forty days and nights, and the LORD listened to me at that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.

Matthew 4:2
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father, or his mother. According to the Jewish canons w, if a man vowed a thing which is contrary to a command, he was obliged to keep his vow, and break the command: thus, if a man vowed that his father or his mother should never receive any benefit from what he had, but that his substance was as "Corban", or as any thing devoted to divine service, he was obliged to keep his vow; nor was he allowed after this to do any thing for his father, or mother, however poor or helpless they might be; unless he applied to a wise man to revoke his vow, or to give him liberty to do it; for he could not do it of himself, as wicked as it was; and though he might heartily repent of it, and was ever so willing to make it null and void: and though a dissolution it by a wise man was allowed of, yet hereby they set up their own power and authority against God, and his law; they did not rescind the vow, because it was contrary to the command of God: for notwithstanding its being contrary to the command of God, it was to be observed, though to the breaking of that, unless loosed by a wise man, at the man's request; whereby they established their magisterial power and authority, without any regard to the honour and glory of God; and therefore what follows, is justly observed by our Lord; :-.

w Maimon. Hilch. Nedarim, c. 3. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 15:1-20.

Mark 7:1

Came from Jerusalem - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him.

Mark 7:2

Defiled hands - The hands were considered defiled or polluted unless they were washed previous to every meal.

Mark 7:3

Except they wash their hands oft - Our word “oft” means frequently, often. The Greek wore translated oft has been rendered various ways. Some have said that it means “up to the wrist” - unless they wash their hands up to the wrist. Others have said up to the elbow.” There is evidence that the Pharisees had some such foolish rule as this about washing, and it is likely that they practiced it faithfully. But the Greek Word πυγμή pugmē - means properly the “fist,” and the meaning here is, “Unless they wash their hands (rubbing them) with the fist” - that is, not merely dipping the finger or hands in water as a sign of ablution, but rubbing the hands together as a ball or fist, in the usual Oriental manner when water is poured over them. Hence, the phrase comes to mean “diligently, carefully, sedulously.” - Robinson, Lexicon. The idea is, unless they pay the utmost attention to it, and do it carefully and according to rule.

The tradition - What had been handed down; not what was delivered “by writing” in the law of Moses, but what had been communicated from father to son as being proper and binding.

The elders - The ancients; not the old men “then living,” but those who had lived formerly.

Mark 7:4

Market - This word means either the place where provisions were sold, or the place where men were convened for any purpose. Here it probably means the former.

Except they wash - In the original, “Except they baptize.” In this place it does not mean to immerse the whole body, but only the hands. There is no evidence that the Jews washed their “whole bodies” every time they came from market. It is probable that they often washed with the use of a very small quantity of water.

The washing of cups - In the Greek, “the baptism of cups.”

Cups - drinking vessels. Those used at their meals.

Pots - Measures of “liquids.” Vessels made of wood, used to hold wine, vinegar, etc.

brazen vessels - Vessels made of brass, used in cooking or otherwise. These, if much polluted, were commonly passed through the fire: if slightly polluted they were washed. Earthen vessels, if defiled, were usually broken.

Tables - This word means, in the original, “beds or couches.” It refers not to the “tables” on which they ate, but to the “couches” on which they reclined at their meals. See the notes at Matthew 23:6. These were supposed to be defiled when any unclean or polluted person had reclined on them, and they deemed it necessary to purify them with water. The word “baptism” is here used - in the original, “the baptism of tables;” but, since it cannot be supposed that “couches” were entirely “immersed” in water, the word “baptism” here must denote some other application of water, by sprinkling or otherwise, and shows that the term is used in the sense of washing in any way. If the word is used here, as is clear it is, to denote anything except entire immersion, it may be elsewhere, and baptism is lawfully performed, therefore, without immersing the whole body in water.

Mark 7:7

For doctrines - For commands of God binding on the conscience. Imposing “your” traditions as equal in authority to the laws of God.

Mark 7:8

Laying aside - Rejecting, or making, it give place to traditions; considering the traditions as superior in authority to the divine law. This was the uniform doctrine of the Pharisees. See the notes at Matthew 15:1-9.

The tradition of men - What has been handed down by human beings, or what rests solely on their authority.

Mark 7:9

Full well - These words are capable of different interpretations. Some read them as a question: “Do ye do well in rejecting?” etc. Others suppose they mean “skillfully, cunningly.” “You show great cunning or art, in laying aside God’s commands and substituting in their place those of men.” Others suppose them to be ironical. “How nobly you act! From conscientious attachment to your traditions you have made void the law of God;” meaning to intimate by it that they had acted wickedly and basely.

Mark 7:17

The parable - The “obscure” and difficult remarks which he had made in Mark 7:15. The word “parable,” here, means “obscure” and “difficult saying.” They could not understand it. They had probably imbibed many of the popular notions of the Pharisees, and they could not understand why a man was not defiled by external things. It was, moreover, a doctrine of the law that men were ceremonially polluted by contact with dead bodies, etc., and they could not understand how it could be otherwise.

Mark 7:18

Cannot defile him - Cannot render his “soul” polluted; cannot make him a “sinner” so as to need this purifying as a “religious” observance.

Mark 7:19

Entereth not into his heart - Does not reach or affect the “mind,” the “soul,” and consequently cannot pollute it. Even if it should affect the “body,” yet it cannot the “soul,” and consequently cannot need to be cleansed by a religious ordinance. The notions of the Pharisees, therefore, are not founded in reason, but are mere “superstition.”

The draught - The sink, the vault. “Purging all meats.” The word “purging,” here, means to purify, to cleanse. What is thrown out of the body is the innutritious part of the food taken into the stomach, and leaving only that which is proper for the support of life; and it cannot, therefore, defile the soul.

All meals - All food; all that is taken into the body to support life. The meaning is, that the economy or process by which life is supported “purifies” or “renders nutritious” all kinds of food. The unwholesome or innutritious parts are separated, and the wholesome only are taken into the system. This agrees with all that has since been discovered of the process of digestion and of the support of life. The food taken into the stomach is by the gastric juice converted into a thick pulp called chyme. The nutritious part of this is conveyed into small vessels, and changed into a milky substance called “chyle.” This is poured by the thoracic duct into the left subclavian vein and mingles with the blood, and conveys nutriment and support to all parts of the system. The useless parts of the food are thrown off.

Mark 7:20

Hat which cometh out of the man - His words; the expression of his thoughts and feelings; his conduct, as the development of inward malice, anger, covetousness, lust, etc.

Defileth the man - Makes him really polluted or offensive in the sight of God. This renders the soul corrupt and abominable in his sight. See Matthew 15:18-20.