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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don`t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
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Tradition, Not Scripture
Commentators stress that the ceremonial hand-washing was a 'tradition of the elders,' not a command from God's written law. Scholars note that Jewish sources themselves identified these rules as originating from scribes, not Scripture. This establishes the core conflict: Jesus's disciples were being judged by human standards, not divine ones.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Except they wash their hands oft. The word oft means frequently, often. The word translated oft has been rendered in var…
Diligently (πυγμη). Instrumental case,
with the fist , up to the elbow, rubbing one hand and arm with the …
19th Century
Anglican
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews.—For the sake of the same class of readers, St. Mark adds another explanatory note. T…
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Mark felt it necessary to explain to his Gentile readers the Jewish custom of ceremonial handwashing, a custom based on the “tradition [GK 4142] of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews The far greater part of them; all, excepting the Sadducees; and especially the P…
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 o…
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