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Mark 7:6 (NIV)
He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Mark 7:1 (NIV)
The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus
Mark 7:2 (NIV)
and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
Mark 7:3 (NIV)
(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.
Mark 7:4 (NIV)
When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. )
Mark 7:5 (NIV)
So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
Mark 7:7 (NIV)
They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
Mark 7:8 (NIV)
You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
Mark 7:9 (NIV)
And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
Mark 7:10 (NIV)
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
Mark 7:11 (NIV)
But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
Mark 7:12 (NIV)
then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
Mark 7:13 (NIV)
Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
Mark 7:14 (NIV)
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
Mark 7:15 (NIV)
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
Mark 7:17 (NIV)
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
Mark 7:18 (NIV)
“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Mark 7:19 (NIV)
For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
Mark 7:20 (NIV)
He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
Mark 7:21 (NIV)
For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Mark 7:22 (NIV)
adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Mark 7:23 (NIV)
All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:24 (NIV)
Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret.
Mark 7:25 (NIV)
In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet.
Mark 7:26 (NIV)
The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.