Mark 7:1-16 Then came together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.… These Pharisees found fault because Christ's disciples did not obey man's law, the quoted "tradition," the authority of their Church. It was not until the great (seventh) Earl of Shaftesbury was twenty-five years of age that he supposed that anyone outside the Church of England was worth listening to, or ever wrote anything worth reading. "As to their having any views of their own worthy of consideration," he says, "it never crossed my mind until one day I got hold of a copy of some Commentary, and, after reading for awhile with great interest, it suddenly struck me, 'The writer must have been a rank Dissenter!' and I instantly shut up the book, recoiling from it as I would from poison. One of the first things that opened my eyes was reading of Doddridge being condemned as a Dissenter, and I remember exclaiming, 'Good heavens! how will he stand in the day of judgment at the bar of God, as compared with Pope Alexander VI?' It was not till I was twenty-five years old, or thereabouts, that I got hold of Scott's Commentary on the Bible, and, struck with the enormous difference between his views and those to which I had been accustomed, I began to think for myself." Parallel Verses KJV: Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.WEB: Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. |
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