Thursday 2021.10.14
Today, in the NT, I read the Gospel of Mark chapters 7 and 8 from the American Standard Version.
Mark chapter 7 verses 1 to 8 records the account of the Pharisees and scribes questioning our Lord about the failure of his disciples to adhere to their strict tradition of washing hands before meals, one of many other such traditions of bathing, and washing cups, pots and bronze vessels. In their view, failure to observe any of these "tradition of the elders" results in being defiled.
In verses 6 to 8, our Lord Iesous quoted Isaiah 29:13 (Esaias 29:13) from the Septuagint and rebuked them for leaving the commandment of God and instead adhering to the tradition of men.
- Mark 7:1 - 8 ASV
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1 And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the
scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
4 and when they come from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. - Esaias 29:13 LXX Brenton
- And the Lord has said, This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and they honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
