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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 NET Bible</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</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">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/mark/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Breaking Human Traditions</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to 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, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:</p><p class="otpoetry2">‘<b><i>This people honors me with their lips,</i></b></p><p class="otpoetry2"><b><i>but their heart</i></b> <i><b>is far from me</b>.</i></p> <p class="otpoetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><b><i>They worship me in vain,</i></b></p><p class="otpoetry2"><i><b>teaching as doctrine the commandments of men</b>.</i>’</p> <p class="bodyblock"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For Moses said, ‘<b><i>Honor your father and your mother</i></b>,’ and, ‘<i><b>Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death</b>.</i>’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is <i>corban</i>’ (that is, a gift for God), <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”</p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>[[EMPTY]] <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All these evils come from within and defile a person.”</p> <p class="title">A Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>She answered, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then he said to her, “Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</p> <p class="title">Healing a Deaf Mute</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, “<i>Ephphatha</i>” (that is, “Be opened”). <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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