The passage reads, "But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother." This was a way that the Jews had of getting around simple duty to their parents. God had said, "Honor thy father and thy mother." That commandment holds to the end. It is not simply for the little child, it is for those who are older as well. If the father and the mother needed support it would be the duty of the son to support them; but the Jews would dedicate their property to the Lord nominally. They would say their property was corban, all given to God. Yet they themselves would retain the use of it; and practically, so far as they personally were concerned, it did not affect them at all. But when the parent needed help they would say, "I can't help you with this; corban, it belongs to God." God never designed that they should get rid of doing duty in any such a way as that. It certainly was all right for one to dedicate his property to God, but it was not all right to dedicate property to God to get rid of supreme duties. Corban simply means "given," a gift to God.