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<span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and <i>when they come</i> from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>wash themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And He said to them, <span class="red">“Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS,</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.</span> <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME,</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDS OF MEN.’</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">Leaving the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And He was also saying to them, <span class="red">“You are good at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER’; and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>BE PUT TO DEATH’;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">but you say, ‘If a man says to <i>his</i> father or <i>his</i> mother, whatever you might benefit from me is Corban</span> (that is to say, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>given <i>to God</i>),’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">you no longer leave him to do anything for <i>his</i> father or <i>his</i> mother;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red"><i>thus</i> invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”</span> <p class="hdg">The Heart of Man</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And after He called the crowd to Him again, He <i>began</i> saying to them, <span class="red">“Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.</span> [<span class="red"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>And if anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”</span>] <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when He had left the crowd <i>and</i> entered the house, His disciples were asking Him about the parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And He said to them, <span class="red">“Are you lacking understanding in this way as well? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and goes to the sewer?”</span> (<i>Thus He</i> declared all foods clean.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And He was saying, <span class="red">“That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>envy, slander, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>pride, <i>and</i> foolishness.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”</span> <p class="hdg">A Gentile Woman’s Faith</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now Jesus stood up and went away from there to the region of Tyre<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>. And when He had entered a house, He was wanting no one to know <i>of it</i>; <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>yet He could not escape notice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now the woman was a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Greek, of Syrophoenician descent. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And He was saying to her, <span class="red">“Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, <i>but</i> even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And He said to her, <span class="red">“Because of this <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And going back to her home, she found the child <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>lying on the bed, the demon having left. <p class="hdg">The Deaf Hear, the Mute Speak</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And they brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they pleaded with Him to lay His hand on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and looking up to heaven with a sigh, He said to him, <span class="red">“Ephphatha!”</span> that is, <span class="red">“Be opened!”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And his ears were opened, and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>impediment of his tongue <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>was removed, and he <i>began</i> speaking plainly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He was ordering them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>with the fist</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Ceremonial cleansing; lit <i>baptizing</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>die the death</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> An offering; or <i>a gift</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Early mss omit this v<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>an evil eye</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>arrogance</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Two early mss add <i>and Sidon</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>and</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>Gentile</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i>proper</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Lit <i>word</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>thrown</i><br><span class="fnverse">35</span> Or <i>bond</i><br><span class="fnverse">35</span> Lit <i>was loosed</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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