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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" /><title>Mark 7 NIV</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="../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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/mark/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">That Which Defiles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some early manuscripts pitchers, kettles and dining couches">a</a></sup></span> )</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He replied, <span class="red">“Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="red">“ ‘These people honor me with their lips,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">but their hearts are far from me.</span></p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">They worship me in vain;</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">their teachings are merely human rules.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Isaiah 29:13">b</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he continued, <span class="red">“You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts set up">c</a></sup></span> your own traditions!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16">d</a></sup></span> and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9">e</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, <span class="red">“Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-16.htm"><b>[16]</b></a></span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.">f</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“Are you so dull?”</span> he asked. <span class="red">“Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.”</span> (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He went on: <span class="red">“What comes out of a person is what defiles them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Many early manuscripts Tyre and Sidon">g</a></sup></span> He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">“First let the children eat all they want,”</span> he told her, <span class="red">“for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then he told her, <span class="red">“For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the Ten Cities">h</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, <span class="red"><span class="foreign">“Ephphatha!”</span></span> (which means <span class="red">“Be opened!”</span>). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some early manuscripts <i>pitchers, kettles and dining couches</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">Isaiah 29:13</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>set up</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">Many early manuscripts <i>Tyre and Sidon</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, the Ten Cities</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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