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Mark 7:5

MARK—NOTE ON Mark 7:5 Scribes are sent from Jerusalem (v. Mark 7:1) to investigate the situation brought about by Jesus’ popularity. eat with defiled hands. The disciples are not breaking the Mosaic law but rather the tradition of the elders that prescribed ritual washing of hands, utensils, and furniture (see vv. Mark 7:2). By his example, Jesus implies that his disciples may ignore these traditions (see Luke 11:37).

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See also Mark 7:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Mark 7:5. _WHY WALK NOT THY DISCIPLES_] See Clarke on Matthew 15:2....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 15:1. Mark 7:1 CAME FROM JERUSALEM - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him. Mark 7

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Opposition of the Pharisees. (Mark 7:1 .Matthew 15:1)_ 2. Grace shown to the Syrophenician Woman. (Mark 7:24. Matthew

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WASHING OF HANDS AND THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. This discussion with the Pharisees serves to bring out the antagonism of Jesus to the restrictions which separated Jews from Gentiles. Perhaps fo...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So the Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not conduct themselves as the tradition of the elders prescribes, but eat bread with hands that are unclean?" He said to t...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    CLEAN AND UNCLEAN (Mark 7:1-4)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata_. App-104....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    1–13. QUESTIONS OF CEREMONIAL CLEANSING Matthew 15:1-20...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΑῚ ἘΠΕΡΩΤΩ͂ΣΙΝ ([1401][1402][1403][1404] Latt.) rather than ἔπειτα ([1405][1406][1407][1408]), which is another attempt to mend the construction broken by Mark 7:3-4. ΚΟΙΝΑΙ͂Σ ([1409][1410][1411][141...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 1. Then came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2. And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, the unwashen...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _HUMAN TRADITIONS AND THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN MARK 7:1-13:_ The Scribes and the Pharisees were constant foes of Jesus. Pharisees were a strict religious sect of the Jews. The Scribes copied and taught...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΠΕΡΩΤΏΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G1905) спрашивать, задавать вопросы о чем-л. (_см._ Mark 5:9). Hist, _praes._ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043) χοдить, в_евр._ понимании...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    10. CONFLICT WITH PHARISEES 7:1-23. a. _Conflict over washings 7:1-8_ _TEXT 7:1-8_ And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which had come from Jerusalem,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 15:1. The first words of this narrative show that the...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    43 To fully appreciate the import of this sign, it must be compared with a similar one which occurred some time later. The cumulative contrast cannot be fully seen in an inaccurate version, but is rea...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:5 ancients, (a-23) Or 'the tradition of the elders.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EATING WITH UNWASHED HANDS. THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN. HEALING OF A DEAF MAN 1-23. Eating with unwashed hands (Matthew 15:1). See on Mt. 3, 4. A note added by St. Mark for the benefit of his Gentile...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 7 GOD’S PEOPLE MUST BE DIFFERENT VERSES 1-16 God’s people should not do all the sa...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 6:53-7:13 (MARK 6:53 - MARK 7:1) UNWASHEN HANDS "And when they had crossed over, they came to the land unto Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.. Making void the word of God by your traditio...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    At last we come to the point, the complaint of the jealous guardians of Jewish custom, as handed down from the elders (κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τ. π.), against the disciples of Jesus, and indirectly against...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Concerning ceremonial ablutions_ (Matthew 15:1-20)....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THE BONDS OF TRADITION Mark 7:1-23 The Pharisees laid great stress on ritual. They followed endless rules, both intricate and troublesome, as to ablutions and outward ceremonials. So long as...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In strong and clear language the Master denounced tradition as contrary to the commandment of God. 1. Things from without do not defile, and therefore are not sin. Temptation is not sin. 2. Only tha...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why (f) walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? (f) Why live they not? This is a Hebrew idiom: fo...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 34 BAPTIZE NOT ALWAYS A TOTAL SUBMERSION Matthew 15:1-2; Mark 7:1-6. “And the Pharisees and certain ones, the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, are assembled before Him. And seeing certain...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS. The _Pharisees assemble to contend with_ CHRIST. JESUS _reproves them. He heals a poor child, and cures one that was deaf and dumb._ THEN came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain o...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The ruling power in exercise among the Jews had shewn itself hostile to the testimony of God, and had put to death the one whom He had sent in the way of righteousness. The scribes, and those who pret...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES ASKED HIM,.... Not the disciples, but Christ himself; for their chief view was to find fault, and quarrel with him: WHY WALK NOT THY DISCIPLES ACCORDING TO THE TRADITIO...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? Ver. 5. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 15:2 _"_ _See Trapp on ...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the Pharisees, &c., except they wash their hands oft_ Greek, εαν μη πυγμη νιψωνται τας χειρας, _except they wash their hands with their fist:_ or, as some render it, _to the wrist._ Theophylact t...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. Matthew 15:1-20....

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Formal and hypocritical teachers of religion are prone to add to the commands of God traditions and ceremonies of their own, and to be very anxious that men should observe them, while they neglect his...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES ASKED HIM, WHY WALK NOT THY DISCIPLES ACCORDING TO THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS, BUT EAT BREAD WITH UNWASHEN HANDS? An instance of typical pharisaic pedantry, of delibera...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING CEREMONIAL WASHINGS. The Pharisees find fault:...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    SERMON #1 TITLE: Well Intentioned Dragons TEXT: Mark 7:1-4 PROPOSITION: In every group there are some dragons. QUESTION: Who? KEY WORD: Descriptions READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1. Every church has t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MARK 7:1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Mark 7:5 Then G1899 Pharisees G5330 and G2532 scribes G1122 asked G1905 (G5719) Him G846 Why G1302 Your...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS FACES UP TO THE SCRIBES FROM JERUSALEM AND WARNS THEM AGAINST A FALSE EMPHASIS ON THEIR TRADITIONS INSTEAD OF ON THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD (7:1-8). Here Jesus makes clear that ‘the traditions of t...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SCRIBES FROM JERUSALEM RETURN TO LEARN SOME HOME TRUTHS (7:1-16). Jesus' continued impact is now brought out by the reappearance of the Doctors of Law from Jerusalem who have come down to investig...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the Pharisees and the Scribes ask him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?” ' We can be sure that the Pharisees and S...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS BEGINS TO REACH OUT TO GENTILES (7:1-8:21). At this stage in His ministry Jesus begins to reach out further afield, for from this point on He spends much time preaching in territory which is mai...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Mark 7:5. See on Matthew 15:2....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The history of the last year of our Lord's ministry begins here. See notes on Matthew 15:1-20. Mark introduces several independent details: the fact that the opposers came from Jerusalem (Mark 7:1), t...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRADITION That is, The so-called "oral law" alleged to have been handed down from Moses; really a traditional interpretation of the written law. See margin reference, (_ See Scofield) - (Mark 7:7)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jesus rebukes Pharisees. Healing of daughter of Syrophenician woman and a deaf and dumb man. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes, disciples, Syrophenician woman, her daughter, deaf man, I...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Mark 7:3. _The pharisees, and all the jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not._ Their traditionary laws, which enjoined all possible corporeal purity, were built on the notion that a person mi...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    ASKED JESUS. He was "kicking" their Tradition by ignoring it. See notes on Matthew 15:1-20....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes._ SCRIBES AND PHARISEES COMING TO CHRIST I. When they came. When Gennesaret turned its heart toward Him. When diseased bodies ha...

  • The Gospels Compared

    JESUS TEACHES ABOUT INNER PURITY MATTHEW 15:1-20; MARK 7:1-23; MATTHEW 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Mar

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 7 1 _The Pharisees find fault at the disciples for eating with unwashen hands_. 8 _They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men_. 14 _Meat defileth not the man_. 24 _He healeth t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 7:3. OFT.—Literally, _with the fist_, hence _vigorously_. The idea is, that the Pharisees had inaugurated an elaborate and painstaking ceremonial, which was now ad...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MARK 7:1, MARK 7:2 These verses, according to the Greek construction, should run thus: AND THERE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO THE PHARISEES, AND CERTAIN OF THE scribes, which had come from J...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem (Mark 7:1). They came on up from Jerusalem to the area of Galilee. And when they saw some of his disci...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 3:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Acts 21:21; Acts 21:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The tradition of the elders — The rule delivered down from your forefathers....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    (CF. LUKE 7:2-10)— Is there a mistake in the accounts concerning Jesus and the centurion? PROBLEM: Matthew seems to present the centurion as the one who seeks the help of Jesus (Matthew 8:5); but, Luk...

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