Mark 7 : 1 (NET)
Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.
Mark 7 : 2 (NET)
And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
Mark 7 : 3 (NET)
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.
Mark 7 : 4 (NET)
And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)
Mark 7 : 5 (NET)
The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"
Mark 7 : 6 (NET)
He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7 : 7 (NET)
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'
Mark 7 : 8 (NET)
Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition."
Mark 7 : 9 (NET)
He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
Mark 7 : 10 (NET)
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'
Mark 7 : 11 (NET)
But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),
Mark 7 : 12 (NET)
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
Mark 7 : 13 (NET)
Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."
Mark 7 : 14 (NET)
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
Mark 7 : 15 (NET)
There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."
Mark 7 : 17 (NET)
Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
Mark 7 : 18 (NET)
He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
Mark 7 : 19 (NET)
For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)
Mark 7 : 20 (NET)
He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.
Mark 7 : 21 (NET)
For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Mark 7 : 22 (NET)
adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
Mark 7 : 23 (NET)
All these evils come from within and defile a person."
Mark 7 : 24 (NET)
After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.
Mark 7 : 25 (NET)
Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
Mark 7 : 26 (NET)
The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 7 : 27 (NET)
He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."
Mark 7 : 28 (NET)
She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
Mark 7 : 29 (NET)
Then he said to her, "Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."
Mark 7 : 30 (NET)
She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Mark 7 : 31 (NET)
Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
Mark 7 : 32 (NET)
They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
Mark 7 : 33 (NET)
After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man's ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.
Mark 7 : 34 (NET)
Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, "Ephphatha" (that is, "Be opened").
Mark 7 : 35 (NET)
And immediately the man's ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.
Mark 7 : 36 (NET)
Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.
Mark 7 : 37 (NET)
People were completely astounded and said, "He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
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