“But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;”
But you say: if anyone tells his father or his mother, what you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father. The corban practice (Mark 7:11 names it explicitly): the Pharisaic ruling that allowed a person to declare their resources corban (dedicated to God) and thereby excuse themselves from the obligation to support their parents financially. The dedication to God created a technical religious obligation that overrode the familial obligation.
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