Mark 7:10

10 Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.

Mark 7:10 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:10

For Moses said
That is, God by Moses; for the following precept was spoken by God, and written by him on one of the tables of stone, and delivered into the hands of Moses, to be given to the children of Israel:

honour thy father and thy mother,
( Exodus 20:12 ) , the sanction of which law is,

and whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death,
( Exodus 21:17 ) . As the former of these commands is to be understood, not only of honouring parents in thought, word, and deed, but also of providing for them, when in want and distress, through poverty and old age; so the latter is to be interpreted, not merely of wishing or imprecating the most dreadful things upon parents, which some may not be guilty of, and yet transgress this command; but likewise of every slight put upon them, and neglect of them, when in necessitous circumstances: and both these laws were broken by the Jews, through their tradition hereafter mentioned; (See Gill on Matthew 15:4).

Mark 7:10 In-Context

8 You ignore God's commandment while holding on to rules created by humans and handed down to you."

9 Jesus continued, "Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God's commandment in order to establish these rules.

10 Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.

11 But you say, ‘If you tell your father or mother, Everything I'm expected to contribute to you is corban (that is, a gift I'm giving to God),

12 then you are no longer required to care for your father or mother.'

Footnotes

• [a]. Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
• [b]. Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9