NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 15:6

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he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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Verse 6. And he shall not honour; that is, assist his father or his mother. It is doubtful whether these may not be the words of the Pharisees; but they rather seem the words of our Saviour Christ, especially seeing that in Saint Mark, Christ himself adds: And, farther, you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother, making void the word of God by your tradition. Witham.

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