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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Mark 7 WEY</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../topmenuchap/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEY</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">Weymouth New testament</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Tradition and Vain Worship<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/15.htm">Matthew 15:1-9</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the Pharisees, with certain Scribes who had come from Jerusalem, came to Him in a body. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and when they come from market they will not eat without bathing first; and they have a good many other customs which they have received traditionally and cling to, such as the rinsing of cups and pots and of bronze utensils, and the washing of beds.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites," He replied; "as it is written, "'This People honour Me with their lips, while their hearts are far away from Me:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>"Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions! <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But *you* say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you 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>Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean." <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>After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed—fornication, theft, murder, adultery, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>all these wicked things come out from within and make a man unclean."</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>Then He rose and left that place and went into the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon. Here He entered a house and wished no one to know it, but He could not escape observation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit heard of Him, and came and flung herself at His feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps." <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter." <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</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>Returning from the neighbourhood of Tyre, He came by way of Sidon to the Lake of Galilee, passing through the district of the Ten Towns. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Here they brought to Him a deaf man that stammered, on whom they begged Him to lay His hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and looking up to Heaven He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Open!") <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And the man's ears were opened, and his tongue became untied, and he began to speak perfectly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then Jesus charged them to tell no one; but the more He charged them, all the more did they spread the news far and wide. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The amazement was extreme. 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