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class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and when they come from the marketplace, except they wash themselves, they eat not: and many other things there be, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.</p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">What Defiles a Man<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/15.htm#10">Matthew 15:10-20</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.</p> <a name="24" id="24"></a><p class="hdg">The Faith of the Syrophoenician Woman<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/15.htm#21">Matthew 15:21-28</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it: and he could not be hid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord: even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the devil gone out.</p> <a name="31" id="31"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../isaiah/35.htm">Isaiah 35:1-10</a>; <a href="../matthew/9.htm#32">Matthew 9:32-34</a>)</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 borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../mark/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/mark/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>