Mark 7

The Traditions of the Elders

1The # 7:1–23 Mt 15:1–20 Pharisees # 7:1 Mk 7:3 and some of the scribes # 7:1 Mt 2:4 who had come from Jerusalem # 7:1 Mt 23:37 gathered around him. 2They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean # 7:2 Ac 10:28 — that is, unwashed — hands. 3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders. 4When they come from the marketplace, # 7:4 Mk 6:56 they do not eat unless they have washed. # 7:4 Heb 6:2; 9:10 And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and dining couches. # 7:4 Other mss omit and dining couches,# 7:4 Lk 5:18) 5So the Pharisees # 7:5 Mk 7:3 and the scribes # 7:5 Mt 2:4 asked him, “Why don’t your disciples live # 7:5 Lit walk according to the tradition of the elders, # 7:5 3Jn 1 instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean # 7:5 Other mss read with unwashed hands? ”

6He answered them, “Isaiah # 7:6 Mt 3:3; 4:14; 12:17 prophesied # 7:6 Jn 11:51 correctly about you hypocrites, # 7:6 Lk 6:42 as it is written: # 7:6 Ac 15:15

This people honors # 7:6 1Tm 5:3 me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

7 They worship me in vain,

teaching # 7:7 Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 as doctrines # 7:7 Rm 15:4 human commands. # 7:6–7 Is 29:13,# 7:7 Is 29:13; Col 2:22

8 Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition.” # 7:8 Other mss add The washing of jugs, and cups, and many other similar things you practice. 9He also said to them, “You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up # 7:9 Or to maintain your tradition! 10For Moses # 7:10 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 said: Honor your father and your mother; # 7:10 Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16,# 7:10 Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16 and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death. # 7:10 Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9,# 7:10 Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9 11But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit # 7:11 Mk 5:26 you might have received from me is corban’ ” (that is, an offering # 7:11 Heb 5:1; 9:9; 11:4 devoted to God), 12“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13You nullify the word of God # 7:13 Mk 4:14; Lk 8:21; Jn 18:32 by your tradition that you have handed # 7:13 Jd 3 down. And you do many other similar things.”

14Summoning # 7:14 Lk 18:16 the crowd again, he told them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: # 7:14 Mt 13:13 15Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” # 7:15 Some mss include v. 16: “If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen.”

17When he went into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him? 19For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach # 7:19 Php 3:19 and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean # 7:19 1Jn 1:7). 20And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, # 7:21 1Th 4:3 thefts, murders, # 7:21 Pr 1:16 22adulteries, # 7:22 Nm 5:11 greed, # 7:22 Eph 5:3 evil actions, deceit, # 7:22 Ps 10:7 self-indulgence, # 7:22 Rm 13:13; 2Co 12:21; Gl 5:19; Eph 4:19; 1Pt 4:3; 2Pt 2:2,7,18 envy, # 7:22 Or evil eye slander, # 7:22 Jn 10:33; Rv 13:6 pride, # 7:22 Ps 17:10 and foolishness. # 7:22 2Co 11:1 23All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”

A Gentile Mother’s Faith

24He got up and departed from # 7:24–30 Mt 15:21–28 there to the region of Tyre. # 7:24 Many early mss add and Sidon,# 7:24 Ac 21:7 He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice. 25Instead, immediately after hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit # 7:25 Lk 11:24 came and fell at his feet. # 7:25 Lk 8:47 26The woman was a Gentile, # 7:26 Or a Greek (speaker),# 7:26 Ac 17:12 a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon # 7:26 Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 out of her daughter. 27He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” # 7:27 Ex 22:31

28But she replied to him, “Lord, # 7:28 Lk 10:1 even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

29Then he told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.” 30When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

Jesus Does Everything Well

31Again, leaving the region of Tyre, # 7:31 Ac 21:7 he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, # 7:31 Mt 4:18; 15:29; Mk 1:16; Jn 6:1 through # 7:31 Or into the region of the Decapolis. # 7:31 Mt 4:25; Mk 5:20 32They brought to him a deaf # 7:32 Lk 7:22 man who had difficulty speaking # 7:32 Ex 4:11; Is 35:6; 56:10 and begged Jesus to lay his hand on # 7:32 1Tm 5:22 him. 33So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, # 7:33 Jn 9:6 he touched his tongue. 34Looking up to heaven, # 7:34 Mt 24:35; Lk 12:33; Ac 17:24; Eph 6:9; Rv 21:10 he sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha! ” # 7:34 An Aramaic expression (that is, “Be opened! ”). 35Immediately his ears were opened, # 7:35 Phm 10 his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly. # 7:35 Lk 20:21 36He ordered them to tell no one, # 7:36 Mk 1:44; Lk 8:56 but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it. # 7:36 Mk 1:4

37They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well. # 7:37 Gn 1:31 He even makes the deaf # 7:37 Lk 7:22 hear and the mute speak.” # 7:37 Mk 9:17

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Markos 7

1And, when they had come down from Yerushalayim, the Perushim and some of the Sofrim come together around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, 2And they had observed that some of his talmidim were eating their lechem with yadayim temeiot, that is, hands ritually unclean. 3[For the Perushim, and indeed this was the Jewish minhag, do not eat without doing netilat yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands) and also observing the Masoret HaZekenim#7:3 see Ga 1:14 (the Torah Shebal peh, Oral Torah). 4And when they come from [the] marketplace, unless they do so, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the tevilah of cups and pitchers and copper pots.] 5And the Perushim and the Sofrim question Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why do your talmidim not follow the halakhah according to the Masoret HaZekenim, but eat their lechem with yadayim temeiot? 6And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Yeshayah rightly gave a dvar nevuah of you tzevuim, as it has been written, HAAM HAZEH BISFATAV KIBDUNI VLIBO RIKHAK MIMENI (This people with [their] lips honor me, but their heart is removed far away from me). 7VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMMADAH (And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of men.)#7:7 Isa 29:13 8Abandoning the mitzvat Hashem, you are holding to the Masoret HaBnei Adam.

9And he was saying to them, You have a fine knack for setting aside the mitzvat Hashem in order that your own Masorot might stand undisturbed. 10For Moshe#7:10 Rabbeinu said, KABED ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA (Honor your father and your mother), and, The one reviling AVIV VIMMO MOT YUMAT (father or mother let him be put to death).#7:10 Ex 20:12, Dt 5:16; Ex 21:17, Lv 20:9 11But you say, If a man says to his Abba or to his Em, whatever by me you might have benefited is Korban,#7:11 that is, the taitsh (translation) of korban is an offering to Hashem 12Then no longer do you permit him to do anything for his Abba or his Em. 13You nullify and make void the dvar Hashem by means of your Masoret you received. And you do many similar things.

14And having summoned again the multitude, he was saying to them, Give ear to me and have binah (understanding). 15There is nothing outside of a ben Adam (human being) entering into him which is able to make him tameh, but it is the things coming out from the ben Adam that make him tameh. 16He who has oznayim to hear, let him hear. 17And when he left the multitude and entered a bais, his talmidim were asking him [about] the mashal. 18And he says to them, Are you so lacking in binah also? Do you not have binah that it is not what is outside and entering into the ben Adam that is able to make him tameh (unclean)? 19Because it does not enter into his lev, but into his stomach and goes out into the latrine, making all the okhel tohar.#7:19 T.N. See Ro 14:14-23 20And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, It is the thing proceeding out of the ben Adam that makes him tameh. 21For from within the lev of the ben Adam comes evil cravings and machshavot: then zenunim (fornications), gneyvot (thefts), retzichot (murders), 22Niufim (adulteries), chamdanut (greediness), rishah (wickedness), nechalim (scheming deceitfulness), zimmah (lewdness, sensuality), an ayin horo or roah ayin (an envious evil eye), lashon hora, gaavah (pride), and ivvelet (foolishness). 23All these evil things proceed from within and make the ben Adam tameh.

24And from there he got up and departed to the district of Tzor and Tzidon. And having entered into a bais he wanted no one to know [yet], he was not able to escape notice. 25But, after hearing about him, ofen ort, an isha, whose yaldah was having a ruach temeiah, came and fell down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Yevanit (Greek), by birth a Syrophoenician, and she was asking him to cast the shed out of her bat (daughter). 27And he was saying to her, Rishonah allow the banim to be satisfied, for it is not tov to take the lechem of the yeladim and throw it to kelevim (dogs). 28But she replied, saying, Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim under the shulchan eat from the crumbs of the yeladim. 29And he said to her, Because of this answer, go your way, the shed has gone out from the bat of you. 30And having departed to her bais, she found the yaldah lying on the bed, the shed having gone out.

31When he returned from the region of Tzor, and then went through Tzidon to Lake Kinneret within the region of the Decapolis, 32They bring to him [a man who was] cheresh illem (deaf and mute), and they entreated him to lay hands on him. 33And he took him aside from the multitude by himself and put his fingers into his ears, and spat, and with that touched the tongue of the mute man; 34And, looking up to Shomayim with a deep sigh, he says to him, Ephphatha, (which means, Be opened!). 35Ofen ort his ears were opened, and the impediment of his lashon (tongue) was loosed and he was speaking properly. 36And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was directing them not to tell anyone. But as much as he ordered them, they were proclaiming [it] all the more. 37And they were all astonished beyond all measure, saying, He has done all things tov meod (very well), and he makes even the chereshim (deaf people) to hear and the illemim (mute) to speak.#7:37 Isa 35:5,6

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