Mark 7:9. Well. Ironical; the same word as in Mark 7:6.

Your tradition. The tradition of the elders was that of ‘men,' and they had made it theirs, living by it, contrary to the laws of God. ‘At the bottom of all rigorous enforcement of traditional observances there is an unconscious, or half conscious, repugnance to submit perfectly to the law of God' (Lange).

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Old Testament