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Mark 7
Commandments and Traditions
71The Pharisees and some of the experts in the law came from Jerusalem and gathered around Jesus. 2They saw some of his disciples eating bread with unclean (that is, unwashed) hands. 3In fact, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they scrub their hands with a fist,[] holding to the tradition of the elders. 4When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash.[] And there are many other traditions they adhere to, such as the washing[] of cups, pitchers, kettles, and dining couches.[] 5The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead they eat bread with unclean hands.”
6He answered them, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written:
These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
8“You abandon God's commandment but hold to human tradition like the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”[] 9He continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside God's commandment to keep[] your own tradition. 10For example, Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[] and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother must be put to death.’[] 11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you might have received from me is corban”’[] (which means an offering), 12then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13So you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. You do many things like that.”
14He called the crowd to him again and said, “Everyone, listen to me and understand. 15There is nothing outside of a man that can make him unclean by going into him. But the things that come out of a man are what make a man unclean. 16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”[]
17After he had left the crowd and entered a house, his disciples asked him about this illustration. 18He said, “Are you lacking in understanding too? Do you not understand that whatever goes into a man from the outside cannot make him unclean? 19For it does not enter his heart but goes into his stomach and goes out of him into the latrine—in this way all foods are purified.”[]
20He continued, “What comes out of a man, that is what makes a man unclean. 21In fact, from within, out of people's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual sins, theft, murder, 22adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, unrestrained immorality, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. 23All these evil things proceed from within and make a person unclean.”
The Faith of a Gentile Woman
24Jesus got up and went from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not remain hidden. 25Instead, when a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, she immediately came and fell down at his feet. 26This woman was a Greek, of Syro-Phoenician origin. She asked him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27Jesus said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to their little dogs.”
28“Lord,” she answered, “their little dogs under the table also eat some of the children's crumbs.”
29Then he said to her, “Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30She went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
31Jesus left the region of Tyre again and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis.
“Ephphatha! Be opened!”
32They brought a man to him who was deaf and had a speech impediment. They pleaded with Jesus to place his hand on him. 33Jesus took him aside in private, away from the crowd. He put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. 34After he looked up to heaven, he sighed and said, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”) 35Immediately the man's ears were opened, his tongue was set free, and he began to speak plainly. 36Jesus gave the people strict orders to tell no one, but the more he did so, the more they kept proclaiming it. 37They were amazed beyond measure and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
Footnotes
- 7:3 Or up to the wrist. This refers to a method of ceremonial washing.
- 7:4 Greek baptidzo (translated baptize in other contexts)
- 7:4 Greek baptismos (translated baptism in other contexts)
- 7:4 A few witnesses to the text omit and dining couches.
- 7:7 Isaiah 29:13
- 7:8 A few witnesses to the text omit the last part of verse 8 (like the washing…).
- 7:9 Some witnesses to the text read establish.
- 7:10 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
- 7:10 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
- 7:11 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.
- 7:16 A few witnesses to the text omit this verse.
- 7:19 Or “latrine.” (In this way all foods are purified.) The punctuation in the text indicates Jesus spoke the last sentence of verse 19. The parentheses in this footnote would indicate that the last sentence was an inspired comment by Mark.