Mark 7:12

George Lamsa Translation

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

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.

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

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,

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

¹ THEN there gathered unto him Pharisees and scribes, who had come from Jerusalem. ² And they saw some of his disciples eating bread with their hands unwashed; and they reproached them. ³ For all the Jews, even the Pharisees, unless their hands are washed carefully would not eat, because they strictly observe the tradition of the elders. ⁴ Even the things from the market, if they are not washed, they would not eat them. And there are a great many other things, which they have accepted to obey, such as the washing of cups and pots, and copper utensils, and the bedding of dead men. ⁵ And the scribes and Pharisees asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with their hands unwashed? ⁶ He said to them, The prophet Isaiah well prophesied about you, O hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. ⁷ And they worship me in vain, when they teach the doctrines of the commandments of men. ⁸ For you have ignored the commandment of God, and you observe the tradition of men, such as the washing of cups and pots, and a great many other things like these. ⁹ He said to them, Well you do injustice to the commandment of God so as to sustain your own tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and he who curses father or mother, let him 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 will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17
And the flood lasted forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark so that it was lifted up above the earth.

Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up to the mountain; and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, and I abode on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water;

Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I prayed before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing evil in the presence of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10
And I stayed before the LORD on the mountain according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb the mount of God.

Matthew 4:2
So he fasted forty days and forty nights; but at last he was 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.