Matthew 15:5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God,^[a] he need not honor his father.’^[b]

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Matthew 15:5 Or an offering
15.5 By dedicating his property to God, i.e., to the temple, a man could avoid having to help his parents, without actually giving up what he had. The scribes held such a vow to be valid without necessarily approving it.

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