| 7 | Mark | ||
| 1 | A GROUP OF PHARISEES, with some doctors of the law who had come from Jerusalem, met him | The Tradition of the Elders Mk.7.1-23 (Capernaum) -[ Mk.7.1-23 → ] - Mt.15.1-20 | |
| 2 | and noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with 'defiled' hands—in other words, without washing them. | ||
| 3 | (For the Pharisees and the Jews in general never eat without washing the hands, in obedience to an old-established tradition; | ||
| 4 | and on coming from the market-place they never eat without first washing. And there are many other points on which they have a traditional rule to maintain, for example, washing of cups and jugs and copper bowls.) | ||
| 5 | Accordingly, these Pharisees and the lawyers asked him, 'Why do your disciples not conform to the ancient tradition, but eat their food with defiled hands?' | ||
| 6 | He answered, 'Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites in these words: "This people pays me lip-service, but their heart is far from me: | - This people honours me with their lips Mk.7.6-7 - Is.29.13 | |
| 7 | their worship of me is in vain, for they teach as doctrines the commandments of men." | ||
| 8 | You neglect the commandment of God, in order to maintain the tradition of men.' | ||
| 9 | He also said to them, 'How well you set aside the commandment of God in order to maintain your tradition! | ||
| 10 | Moses said, "Honour your father and your mother", and, "The man who curses his father or mother must suffer death." | - Honor your father and your mother Mk.7.10 - Ex.20.12, Dt.5.16 | |
| 11 | But you hold that if a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine which might have been used for your benefit is Corban"' (meaning, set apart for God), | ||
| 12 | 'he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. | ||
| 13 | Thus by your own tradition, handed down among you, you make God's word null and void. And many other things that you do are just like that.' | ||
| 14 | On another occasion he called the people and said to them, 'Listen to me, all of you, and understand this: | ||
| 15 | nothing that goes into a man from outside can defile him; no, it is the things that come out of him that defile a man.' | ||
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| 17 | When he had left the people and gone indoors, his is disciples questioned him about the parable. | ||
| 18 | He said to them, 'Are you as dull as the rest? Do you not see that nothing that goes from outside into a man can | ||
| 19 | defile him, because it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and so passes out into the drain?' | ||
| 20 | Thus he declared all foods clean. He went on, 'It is what comes out of a man that defiles him. | ||
| 21 | For from inside, out of a man's heart, come evil thoughts, acts of fornication, of theft, murder, | ||
| 22 | adultery, ruthless greed, and malice; fraud, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly; | ||
| 23 | these evil things all come from inside, and they defile the man.' | ||
| 24 | Then he left that place and went away into the territory of Tyre. He found a house to stay in, and he would have liked to remain unrecognized, but this was impossible. | The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith Mk.7.24-30 (Phoenicia) -[ Mk.7.24-30 → ] - Mt.15.21-28 | |
| 25 | Almost at once a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard of him, came in, and fell at his feet. | ||
| 26 | (She was a Gentile, a Phoenician of Syria by nationality.) She begged him to drive the spirit out of her daughter. | ||
| 27 | He said to her, 'Let the children be satisfied first; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.' | ||
| 28 | 'Sir,' she answered, 'even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps.' | ||
| 29 | He said to her, 'For saying that, you may go home content; the unclean spirit has gone out of your daughter.' | ||
| 30 | And when she returned home, she found the child lying in bed; the spirit had left her. | ||
| 31 | On his return journey from Tyrian territory he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee through the territory of the Ten Towns. | A Deaf and Dumb Man Healed Mk.7.31-37 (Tyre & Sidon) - | |
| 32 | They brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, with the request that he would lay his hand on him. | ||
| 33 | He took the man aside, away from the crowd, put his fingers into his ears, spat, and touched his tongue. | ||
| 34 | Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, 'Ephphatha', which means 'Be opened.' | ||
| 35 | With that his ears were opened, and at the same time the impediment was removed and he spoke plainly. | ||
| 36 | Jesus forbade them to tell anyone; but the more he forbade them, the more they published it. | ||
| 37 | Their astonishment knew no bounds: 'All that he does, he does well,' they said; 'he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.' | ||
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