Mark 7:10 — Community Reflections

MARK 7:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:”

For Moses said, honor your father and your mother, and anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death — the Corban example begins with the Torah command: Exodus 20:12 (honor your father and mother) and Exodus 21:17 (anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death). The double citation establishes that the command to honor parents is not merely advisory but among the Torah's most serious requirements, backed by capital penalty for its violation. This is the divine command that the Corban tradition will be shown to violate.

Church Fathers on Mark 7:10

The people of the land of Gennesareth, who seemed to be unlearned men, not only come themselves, but also bring their sick to the Lord, that they may but succeed in touching the hem of His garment. But the Pharisees and Scribes, who ought to have been the teachers of the people, run together to the Lord, not to seek for healing, but to move captious questions.
Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 2, 29

For the disciples of the Lord, who were taught only the practice of virtue, used to eat in a simple way, without washing their hands; but the Pharisees, wishing to find an occasion of blame against them, took it up; they did not indeed blame them as transgressors of the law, but for transgressing the traditions of the elders.
Theophylact · 11th century

Wonderful is the folly of the Pharisees and Scribes; they accuse the Son of God, because He keeps not the traditions and precepts of men. But 'common' is here put for unclean; for the people of the Jews, boasting that they were the portion of God, called those meats common, which all made use of.
Jerome · 4th century · Hier. in Matt., 15

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