Matthew 15:5

"For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’"

Key Reflection

This commandment emphasizes the importance of honoring one's parents as a reflection of divine law. Violating it by speaking evil against them was seen as so serious that it carried the penalty of death, highlighting its paramount spiritual and ethical significance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 5. It is a gift. In Mark it is corban. The word corban is a Hebrew word, denoting a gift. It here means a thing dedicated to the service of God; and, therefore, not to be appropriated to any other use. The Jews were in the habit of making such dedications. They devoted their property to him, for sacred uses, as they pleased. In doing this they used the word corban, or some similar word; saying this thing is corban, i.e., is a gift to God, or is sacred to him. The law required that when a dedication of this kind was made, it should be fulfilled. "Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God," Ps 76:11. See De 23:21.

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