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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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Teaching of the Ancestors</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 15:1-9">Matthew 15.1-9</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.1" class="v41_7_1">1</span>Some Pharisees and several teachers of the Law of Moses from Jerusalem came and gathered around Jesus. </span><span class="v41_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.2" class="v41_7_2">2</span>They noticed that some of his disciples ate without first washing their hands.<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.3" class="v41_7_3">3</span>The Pharisees and many others obey the teachings of their ancestors. They always wash their hands in the proper way<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> before eating. </span><span class="v41_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.4" class="v41_7_4">4</span>None of them will eat anything they buy in the market until it is washed. They also follow a lot of other teachings, such as washing cups, pitchers, and bowls.<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.5" class="v41_7_5">5</span>The Pharisees and teachers asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? Why do they eat without washing their hands?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.6" class="v41_7_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus replied:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v41_7_6">You are nothing but show-offs! The prophet Isaiah was right when he wrote that God had said,</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v41_7_6">“All of you praise me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v41_7_6">with your words,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v41_7_6">but you never really</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v41_7_6">think about me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v41_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.7" class="v41_7_7">7</span>It is useless for you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v41_7_7">to worship me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v41_7_7">when you teach rules</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v41_7_7">made up by humans.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="pi"><span class="v41_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.8" class="v41_7_8">8</span>You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught. </span><span class="v41_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.9" class="v41_7_9">9</span>You are good at rejecting God's commands so that you can follow your own teachings! </span><span class="v41_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.10" class="v41_7_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Didn't Moses command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents? </span><span class="v41_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.11" class="v41_7_11">11</span>But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they own has been offered to God.<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v41_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.12" class="v41_7_12">12</span>You won't let those people help their parents. </span><span class="v41_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.13" class="v41_7_13">13</span>And you ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching. You do a lot of other things just as bad.</span></p><h3 class="s1">What Really Makes People Unclean</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 15:10-20">Matthew 15.10-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.14" class="v41_7_14">14</span>Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. </span><span class="v41_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.15-Mark.7.16" class="v41_7_15">15-16</span>The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.15-Mark.7.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_17"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.17" class="v41_7_17">17</span>After Jesus and his disciples had left the crowd and gone into the house, they asked him what these sayings meant. </span><span class="v41_7_18"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.18" class="v41_7_18">18</span>He answered, “Don't you know what I am talking about by now? You surely know that the food you put into your mouth cannot make you unclean. </span><span class="v41_7_19"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.19" class="v41_7_19">19</span>It doesn't go into your heart, but into your stomach, and then out of your body.” By saying this, Jesus meant that all foods were fit to eat.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_20"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.20" class="v41_7_20">20</span>Then Jesus said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v41_7_20">What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean. </span><span class="v41_7_21"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.21" class="v41_7_21">21</span>Out of your heart come evil thoughts, vulgar deeds, stealing, murder, </span><span class="v41_7_22"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.22" class="v41_7_22">22</span>unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness. </span><span class="v41_7_23"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.23" class="v41_7_23">23</span>All of these come from your heart, and they are what make you unfit to worship God.</span></p><h3 class="s1">A Woman's Faith</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 15:21-28">Matthew 15.21-28</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_24"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.24" class="v41_7_24">24</span>Jesus left and went to the region near the town of Tyre, where he stayed in someone's home. He did not want people to know he was there, but they found out anyway. </span><span class="v41_7_25"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.25" class="v41_7_25">25</span>A woman whose daughter had an evil spirit in her heard where Jesus was. And at once she came and knelt down at his feet. </span><span class="v41_7_26"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.26" class="v41_7_26">26</span>The woman was Greek and had been born in the part of Syria known as Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to force the demon out of her daughter. </span><span class="v41_7_27"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.27" class="v41_7_27">27</span>But Jesus said, “The children must first be fed! It isn't right to take away their food and feed it to dogs.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_28"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.28" class="v41_7_28">28</span>The woman replied, “Lord, even puppies eat the crumbs that children drop from the table.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_29"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.29" class="v41_7_29">29</span>Jesus answered, “That's true! You may go now. The demon has left your daughter.” </span><span class="v41_7_30"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.30" class="v41_7_30">30</span>When the woman got back home, she found her child lying on the bed. The demon had gone.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jesus Heals a Man Who Was Deaf and Could Hardly Talk</h3><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_31"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.31" class="v41_7_31">31</span>Jesus left the region around Tyre and went by way of Sidon toward Lake Galilee. He went through the land near the ten cities known as Decapolis.<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.31!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v41_7_32"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.32" class="v41_7_32">32</span>Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk. They begged Jesus just to touch him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_33"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.33" class="v41_7_33">33</span>After Jesus had taken him aside from the crowd, he stuck his fingers in the man's ears. Then he spit and put it on the man's tongue. </span><span class="v41_7_34"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.34" class="v41_7_34">34</span>Jesus looked up toward heaven, and with a groan he said, “Effatha!”<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.7.34!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> which means “Open up!” </span><span class="v41_7_35"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.35" class="v41_7_35">35</span>At once the man could hear, and he had no more trouble talking clearly.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_7_36"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.36" class="v41_7_36">36</span>Jesus told the people not to say anything about what he had done. But the more he told them, the more they talked about it. </span><span class="v41_7_37"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.7.37" class="v41_7_37">37</span>They were completely amazed and said, “Everything he does is good! He even heals people who cannot hear or talk.”</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">without first washing their hands: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Jewish people had strict laws about washing their hands before eating, especially if they had been out in public.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in the proper way: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Greek text has “with the fist,” but the exact meaning is not clear. It could mean “to the wrist” or “to the elbow.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">bowls: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts add “and sleeping mats.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">has been offered to God: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">According to Jewish custom, when anything was offered to God, it could not be used for anyone else, not even for a person's parents.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.15,16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">unclean: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts add, “If you have ears, pay attention.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">feed it to dogs: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some Jewish people referred to Gentiles as dogs.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.31 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the ten cities known as Decapolis: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 5.20.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.34 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Effatha: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This word is in Aramaic, a language spoken in Palestine during the time of Jesus.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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