The Message

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            <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Source of Your Pollution</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4" data-usfm="MRK.7.1+MRK.7.2+MRK.7.3+MRK.7.4"><span class="label">1-4</span><span class="content">The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around him. They noticed that some of his disciples weren&#8217;t being careful with ritual washings before meals. The Pharisees&#8212;Jews in general, in fact&#8212;would never eat a meal without going through the motions of a ritual hand-washing, with an especially vigorous scrubbing if they had just come from the market (to say nothing of the scourings they&#8217;d give jugs and pots and pans).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4" data-usfm="MRK.7.1+MRK.7.2+MRK.7.3+MRK.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Pharisees and religion scholars asked, &#8220;Why do your disciples brush off the rules, showing up at meals without washing their hands?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="label">6-8</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, &#8220;Isaiah was right about frauds like you, hit the bull&#8217;s-eye in fact:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">These people make a big show of saying the right thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">but their heart isn&#8217;t in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">They act like they are worshiping me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">but they don&#8217;t mean it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">They just use me as a cover</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">for teaching whatever suits their fancy,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">Ditching God&#8217;s command</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">and taking up the latest fads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6 v7 v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.6+MRK.7.7+MRK.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12 v13" data-usfm="MRK.7.9+MRK.7.10+MRK.7.11+MRK.7.12+MRK.7.13"><span class="label">9-13</span><span class="content">He went on, &#8220;Well, good for you. You get rid of God&#8217;s command so you won&#8217;t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, &#8216;Respect your father and mother,&#8217; and, &#8216;Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.&#8217; But you weasel out of that by saying that it&#8217;s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, &#8216;Gift! What I owed you I&#8217;ve given as a gift to God,&#8217; thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God&#8217;s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11 v12 v13" data-usfm="MRK.7.9+MRK.7.10+MRK.7.11+MRK.7.12+MRK.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="MRK.7.14+MRK.7.15"><span class="label">14-15</span><span class="content">Jesus called the crowd together again and said, &#8220;Listen now, all of you&#8212;take this to heart. It&#8217;s not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it&#8217;s what you vomit&#8212;that&#8217;s the real pollution.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14 v15" data-usfm="MRK.7.14+MRK.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t get it. Put it in plain language.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.18+MRK.7.19"><span class="label">18-19</span><span class="content">Jesus said, &#8220;Are you being willfully stupid? Don&#8217;t you see that what you swallow can&#8217;t contaminate you? It doesn&#8217;t enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed.&#8221; (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that </span><span class="it"><span class="content">all</span></span><span class="content"> foods are fit to eat.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.18+MRK.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20 v21 v22 v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.20+MRK.7.21+MRK.7.22+MRK.7.23"><span class="label">20-23</span><span class="content">He went on: &#8220;It&#8217;s what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness&#8212;all these are vomit from the heart. </span><span class="it"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content"> is the source of your pollution.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pc"><span class="verse v20 v21 v22 v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.20+MRK.7.21+MRK.7.22+MRK.7.23"><span class="content">* * *</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20 v21 v22 v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.20+MRK.7.21+MRK.7.22+MRK.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24 v25 v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.24+MRK.7.25+MRK.7.26"><span class="label">24-26</span><span class="content">From there Jesus set out for the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house there where he didn&#8217;t think he would be found, but he couldn&#8217;t escape notice. He was barely inside when a woman who had a disturbed daughter heard where he was. She came and knelt at his feet, begging for help. The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. She asked him to cure her daughter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.24+MRK.7.25+MRK.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Stand in line and take your turn. The children get fed first. If there&#8217;s any left over, the dogs get it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">She said, &#8220;Of course, Master. But don&#8217;t dogs under the table get scraps dropped by the children?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29 v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.29+MRK.7.30"><span class="label">29-30</span><span class="content">Jesus was impressed. &#8220;You&#8217;re right! On your way! Your daughter is no longer disturbed. The demonic affliction is gone.&#8221; She went home and found her daughter relaxed on the bed, the torment gone for good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29 v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.29+MRK.7.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31 v32 v33 v34 v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.31+MRK.7.32+MRK.7.33+MRK.7.34+MRK.7.35"><span class="label">31-35</span><span class="content">Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns. Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him. He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man&#8217;s ears and some spit on the man&#8217;s tongue. Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, &#8220;</span><span class="it"><span class="content">Ephphatha!</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;Open up!&#8221; And it happened. The man&#8217;s hearing was clear and his speech plain&#8212;just like that.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31 v32 v33 v34 v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.31+MRK.7.32+MRK.7.33+MRK.7.34+MRK.7.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36 v37" data-usfm="MRK.7.36+MRK.7.37"><span class="label">36-37</span><span class="content">Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more, beside themselves with excitement. &#8220;He&#8217;s done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around him. They noticed that some of his disciples weren’t being careful with ritual washings before meals. The Pharisees—Jews in general, in fact—would never eat a meal without going through the motions of a ritual hand-washing, with an especially vigorous scrubbing if they had just come from the market (to say nothing of the scourings they’d give jugs and pots and pans).
The Pharisees and religion scholars asked, “Why do your disciples brush off the rules, showing up at meals without washing their hands?”
Jesus answered, “Isaiah was right about frauds like you, hit the bull’s-eye in fact:

These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their heart isn’t in it.
They act like they are worshiping me,
but they don’t mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy,
Ditching God’s command
and taking up the latest fads.”

He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.”
Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Listen now, all of you—take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it’s what you vomit—that’s the real pollution.”
When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, “We don’t get it. Put it in plain language.”
Jesus said, “Are you being willfully stupid? Don’t you see that what you swallow can’t contaminate you? It doesn’t enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed.” (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.)
He went on: “It’s what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution.”
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From there Jesus set out for the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house there where he didn’t think he would be found, but he couldn’t escape notice. He was barely inside when a woman who had a disturbed daughter heard where he was. She came and knelt at his feet, begging for help. The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. She asked him to cure her daughter.
He said, “Stand in line and take your turn. The children get fed first. If there’s any left over, the dogs get it.”
She said, “Of course, Master. But don’t dogs under the table get scraps dropped by the children?”
Jesus was impressed. “You’re right! On your way! Your daughter is no longer disturbed. The demonic affliction is gone.” She went home and found her daughter relaxed on the bed, the torment gone for good.
Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns. Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him. He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man’s ears and some spit on the man’s tongue. Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, “Ephphatha!—Open up!” And it happened. The man’s hearing was clear and his speech plain—just like that.
Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more, beside themselves with excitement. “He’s done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless.”

Dengarkan Mark 7