Mark 7:8
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
KJV
ἀφέντες τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ κρατεῖτε τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
Greek NT
Relinquentes enim mandatum Dei, tenetis traditionem hominum, baptismata urceorum et calicum : et alia similia his facitis multa.
Vulgate
Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
ASV
For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἀφέντες — SBLGNT
- ἀφέντες — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + γὰρ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἀνθρώπων — SBLGNT
- ἀνθρώπων — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + βαπτισμοὺς ξεστῶν καὶ ποτηρίων καὶ ἄλλα παρόμοια τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ποιεῖτε — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 7:29 — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Isa 1:12 — When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
- John 3:25 — Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
- Mal 2:9 — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
- Mark 7:3 — For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.