But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”
Mark makes it plain: the scribes allowed men to neglect their duty to parents so long as they made a sacrifice instead. They were not forbidding support; they were permitting its refusal, all for their own profit.
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These men from Jerusalem, who should have been better, were worse. They accused Christ's disciples of breaking tradition by eating with unwashed hands, a decent custom the Pharisees had turned into a religious duty. That this was the worst charge they could bring shows how inoffensively His disciples lived.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:1-9
Corban is a vow that binds property to sacred use and makes it unalienable. Once a man says his wealth is Corban, he swears it away from all other use, including his parents' need. The scribes enforced this vow and freed him from all obligation to them.
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