| 7 | Mark | ||
| 1 | Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, | The Tradition of the Elders Mk.7.1-23 (Capernaum) -[ Mk.7.1-23 → ] - Mt.15.1-20 | |
| 2 | they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. | ||
| 3 | (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; | ||
| 4 | and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze .) | ||
| 5 | And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?" | ||
| 6 | And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, but their heart is far from me; | - This people honours me with their lips Mk.7.6-7 - Is.29.13 | |
| 7 | in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' | ||
| 8 | You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." | ||
| 9 | And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! | ||
| 10 | For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; | - Honor your father and your mother Mk.7.10 - Ex.20.12, Dt.5.16 | |
| 11 | but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) - | ||
| 12 | then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, | ||
| 13 | thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do." | ||
| 14 | And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: | ||
| 15 | there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him." | ||
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| 17 | And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. | ||
| 18 | And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, | ||
| 19 | since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) | ||
| 20 | And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. | ||
| 21 | For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, | ||
| 22 | coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. | ||
| 23 | All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man." | ||
| 24 | And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid. | The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith Mk.7.24-30 (Phoenicia) -[ Mk.7.24-30 → ] - Mt.15.21-28 | |
| 25 | But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet. | ||
| 26 | Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. | ||
| 27 | And he said to her, "Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." | ||
| 28 | But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." | ||
| 29 | And he said to her, "For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter." | ||
| 30 | And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone. | ||
| 31 | Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis. | A Deaf and Dumb Man Healed Mk.7.31-37 (Tyre & Sidon) - | |
| 32 | And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. | ||
| 33 | And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue; | ||
| 34 | and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." | ||
| 35 | And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. | ||
| 36 | And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. | ||
| 37 | And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak." | ||
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