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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Mark 7 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/mark/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/mark/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Mark 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/6.htm" title="Mark 6">◄</a> Mark 7 <a href="../mark/8.htm" title="Mark 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Tradition of the Elders</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28736a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> thus observing the tradition of the elders; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28737b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28737c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28738d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘This people honors me with their lips,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but their hearts are far from me;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>in vain do they worship me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">teaching human precepts as doctrines.’</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28744e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>)— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28748f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28756g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>But she answered him, “Sir,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28760h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jesus Cures a Deaf Man</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Then Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28768i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:3">Mark 7:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Gk uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:4">Mark 7:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they purify themselves</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:4">Mark 7:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>and beds</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:5">Mark 7:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>walk</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:11">Mark 7:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk lacks <i>to God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:15">Mark 7:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add verse 16, <i>“Let anyone with ears to hear listen”</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:24">Mark 7:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>and Sidon</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:28">Mark 7:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Lord</i>; other ancient authorities prefix <i>Yes</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Mark 7:36">Mark 7:36</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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