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Mark 7:11 KJV
Mark · chapter 7 · verse 11
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.Mark 7:11 · King James Version
Mark 7:11 in context
9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whatsoeverhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- whatsoevereanif, in caseG1437 →
- fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- mothermētēra mother, metaph. the source of something, the motherlandG3384 →
- Corbankorbana gift offered to God, the sacred treasuryG2878 →
- giftdōrona gift, present, gifts offered in expression of honour, of sacrifices and other gifts…G1435 →
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One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God's making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-23