Mark 7
7
1The Pharisees and religious leaders who had come down from Jerusalem to meet Jesus 2noticed that some of his disciples ate with “unclean” (meaning unwashed) hands. 3(The Pharisees and all Jews don't eat until they wash their hands, following the tradition of their ancestors. 4In the same way, they don't eat when they return from the market until they have had a wash. They observe many other rituals, like the washing of cups, pots, and pans.)#7:4. While hygienic, the focus was on making sure everything was ceremonially clean.
5So the Pharisees and religious leaders asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples follow the tradition of our ancestors? They eat food#7:5. Literally, “bread.” with unclean hands.”
6Jesus replied, “Isaiah was right about you hypocrites when he said, ‘These people claim they honor me, but in their thinking they are far from me. 7There's no point in their worship of me, for what they teach as doctrines are merely human rules.’#7:7. Quoting Isaiah 29:13. 8You disregard God's law, and instead you carefully observe human traditions.”
9“How cleverly you set aside God's law so you can support your traditions!” he told them. 10“Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses their father or mother should die.’#7:10. Quoting Exodus 20:12 and Exodus 21:17. 11But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Anything you might have received from me is now Corban,’ (that means dedicated to God), 12then you don't permit them to do anything further for their mother or father. 13By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God's word null and void. You do many other things like this.”
14Jesus called the crowd to him again and told them, “Please, everyone listen to me and understand. 15It's not what's on the outside and goes into you that makes you unclean. It's what comes out that makes you unclean.” 16#7:16. The earliest manuscripts do not have verse 16.
17Then Jesus went inside to escape the crowd, and his disciples asked him about his illustration.
18“Don't you understand it either?” he asked them. “Don't you see that what you eat doesn't make you unclean? 19It doesn't go into your mind, but into your stomach, and then passes out of the body. So all foods are ceremonially ‘clean.’#7:19. Some scholars believe this sentence is a later addition.
20It's what comes out of you that makes you unclean. 21It's from the inside, from people's minds, that evil thoughts come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, thoughtlessness— 23all these evils come from inside and defile people.”
24Then Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know he was staying in a house there, but he couldn't keep it a secret. 25As soon as a woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about him, she came and fell at his feet. 26The woman was Greek, born in Syrophoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.
27“First let the children eat until they're full,” Jesus replied. “It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”#7:27. Or puppies, small dogs.
28“True, sir,” she said, “but even the dogs under the table eat the scraps the children leave.”
29Jesus told her, “For such an answer you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” 30She went home and found the child lying on the bed, the demon gone.
31Leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus passed through Sidon and then on to the Sea of Galilee and the territory of the Ten Cities. 32There they brought him a deaf man who also could not speak properly. They asked Jesus to touch the man with his hand and heal him. 33After Jesus took him aside from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers in the deaf man's ears. Then he touched the man's tongue with spit. 34Jesus looked up to heaven and with a sigh he said, “Ephphatha,”#7:34. This is the Aramaic word meaning “cause to be open.” which means, “Open!” 35The man's ears were opened, his speech impediment was gone, and he began speaking properly. 36Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell anyone, but the more he said this, the more they spread the news. 37They were totally amazed and said, “Everything he does is marvelous. He even makes the deaf hear, and the dumb speak.”
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Mark 7
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1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him.
2 And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.
4 And when returning from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which have been handed down to them to observe: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and bronze containers, and beds.
5 And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?"
6 But in response, he said to them: "So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.'
8 For abandoning the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, to the washing of pitchers and cups. And you do many other things similar to these."
9 And he said to them: "You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition.
10 For Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.'
11 But you say, 'If a man will have said to his father or mother: Korban, (which is a gift) whatever is from me will be to your benefit,'
12 then you do not release him to do anything for his father or mother,
13 rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way."
14 And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15 There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man.
16 Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
17 And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.
18 And he said to them: "So, are you also without prudence? Do you not understand that everything entering to a man from outside is not able to pollute him?
19 For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods."
20 "But," he said "the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.
21 For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
23 All these evils procede from within and pollute a man."
24 And rising up, he went from there to the area of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a house, he intended no one to know about it, but he was not able to remain hidden.
25 For a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit, as soon as she heard about him, entered and fell prostrate at his feet.
26 For the woman was a Gentile, by birth a Syro-Phoenician. And she petitioned him, so that he would cast the demon from her daughter.
27 And he said to her: "First allow the sons to have their fill. For it is not good to take away the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs."
28 But she responded by saying to him: "Certainly, Lord. Yet the young dogs also eat, under the table, from the crumbs of the children."
29 And he said to her, "Because of this saying, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."
30 And when she had gone to her house, she found the girl lying on the bed; and the demon had gone away.
31 And again, departing from the borders of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the area of the Ten Cities.
32 And they brought someone who was deaf and mute to him. And they begged him, so that he would lay his hand upon him.
33 And taking him away from the crowd, he put his fingers into his ears; and spitting, he touched his tongue.
34 And gazing up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: "Ephphatha," which is, "Be opened."
35 And immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke correctly.
36 And he instructed them not to tell anyone. But as much as he instructed them, so much more did they preach about it.
37 And so much more did they wonder, saying: "He has done all things well. He has caused both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."
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