The Good News According to Mark, Chapter 7
{7:1} Then the Perushim, and some of the [1>]Sofrim[<1] gathered
together to him, having come from Yerushalayim. {7:2} Now when they
saw some of his [2>]talmidim[<2] eating bread with defiled, that is,
unwashed, hands, they found fault. {7:3} (For the Perushim, and all
the Yehudim, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms,
holding to the tradition of the Zakenim. {7:4} They don't eat when
they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and
there are many other things, which they have received to hold to:
washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) {7:5} The
Perushim and the [3>]Sofrim[<3] asked him, "Why don't your
[4>]talmidim[<4] walk according to the tradition of the Zakenim, but
eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
{7:6} He answered them, "Well did Yesha`yahu prophesy of you
hypocrites, as it is written,
'This people honors me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
{7:7} But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as doctrines the [5>]mitzvot[<5] of men.'
{7:8} "For you set aside the [6>]mitzvah[<6] of God, and hold
tightly to the tradition of men -- the washing of pitchers and cups,
and you do many other such things." {7:9} He said to them, "Full well
do you reject the [7>]mitzvah[<7] of God, that you may keep your
tradition. {7:10} For Moshe said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'
and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to
death.' {7:11} But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother,
"Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to
say, given to God;"' {7:12} then you no longer allow him to do
anything for his father or his mother, {7:13} making void the word of
God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things
like this."
{7:14} He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them,
"Hear me, all of you, and understand. {7:15} There is nothing from
outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things
which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. {7:16} If
anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
{7:17} When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his
[8>]talmidim[<8] asked him about the parable. {7:18} He said to them,
"Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that
whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him, {7:19}
because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into
the latrine, thus making all foods clean?" {7:20} He said, "That which
proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. {7:21} For from within,
out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual
sins, murders, thefts, {7:22} covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful
desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. {7:23} All
these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
{7:24} From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tzor
and Tzidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know
it, but he couldn't escape notice. {7:25} For a woman, whose little
daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell
down at his feet. {7:26} Now the woman was a Yevanit, a Syrophoenician
by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her
daughter. {7:27} But Yeshua said to her, "Let the children be filled
first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and
throw it to the dogs."
{7:28} But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the
table eat the children's crumbs."
{7:29} He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has
gone out of your daughter."
{7:30} She went away to her house, and found the child lying on the
bed, with the demon gone out.
{7:31} Again he departed from the borders of Tzor and Tzidon, and
came to the sea of the Galil, through the midst of the region of
Decapolis. {7:32} They brought to him one who was deaf and had an
impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
{7:33} He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. {7:34}
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Hippatach!" that
is, "Be opened!" {7:35} Immediately his ears were opened, and the
impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke clearly. {7:36} He
commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded
them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. {7:37} They were
astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He
makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:1} scribes
[2] {7:2} disciples
[3] {7:5} scribes
[4] {7:5} disciples
[5] {7:7} commandments
[6] {7:8} commandment
[7] {7:9} commandment
[8] {7:17} disciples
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