Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 7:11

"but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];" — Mark 7:11 (ASV)

It is Corban.—The Hebrew word is peculiar to Mark. It occurs frequently in Leviticus and Numbers (e.g., Leviticus 2:1; Leviticus 2:5; Numbers 7:3; Numbers 7:5), and is translated generally by “offering,” sometimes by “oblation” (Leviticus 2:13; Leviticus 3:1), but elsewhere in the Old Testament it only appears in Ezekiel 20:28; Ezekiel 40:43. It had come to be applied specifically (as in the Greek of Matthew 27:6; Josephus, Wars, 2.9.4) to the sacred treasure of the Temple.

He shall be free.—The words, as the italics show, have nothing corresponding to them in the Greek, nor are they needed, if only, with some manuscripts, we strike out the conjunction “and” from the next verse. So the sentence runs, “If a man says . . . you suffer him no more . . .”