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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/mark/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus Teaches about Inner Purity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> as required by their ancient traditions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Similarly, they don’t eat anything from the market until they immerse their hands<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>)</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 religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,</span></p><p class="b"/><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">Their worship is a farce,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></span></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he said, <span class="red">“You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. <span class="red">“All of you listen,”</span> he said, <span class="red">“and try to understand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“Don’t you understand either?”</span> he asked. <span class="red">“Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.”</span> (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And then he added, <span class="red">“It is what comes from inside that defiles you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, 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, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you.”</span></p><p class="hdg">The Faith of a Gentile Woman</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> He didn’t want anyone to know which house he was staying in, but he couldn’t keep it a secret. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Right away a woman who had heard about him came and fell at his feet. Her little girl was possessed by an evil<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and she begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.</p><p class="reg">Since she was a Gentile, born in Syrian Phoenicia, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Jesus told her, <span class="red">“First I should feed the children—my own family, the Jews.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a> It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw 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>She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the children’s plates.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">“Good answer!”</span> he said. <span class="red">“Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying quietly in bed, and the demon was gone.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals a Deaf Man</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus left Tyre and went up to Sidon before going back to the Sea of Galilee and the region of the Ten Towns.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">l</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>A deaf man with a speech impediment was brought to him, and the people begged Jesus to lay his hands on the man to heal him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Jesus led him away from the crowd so they could be alone. He put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then, spitting on his own fingers, he touched the man’s tongue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Looking up to heaven, he sighed and said, <span class="red"><span class="it">“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>Instantly the man could hear perfectly, and his tongue was freed so he could speak plainly!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Jesus told the crowd not to tell anyone, but the more he told them not to, the more they spread the news. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>They were completely amazed and said again and again, “Everything he does is wonderful. He even makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those who cannot speak.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">have washed with the fist.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:4a </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">sprinkle themselves.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:4b </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add </span><span class="it">and dining couches.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">Isa 29:13 (Greek version).</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:10a </span><span class="ft">Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:10b </span><span class="ft">Exod 21:17 (Greek version); Lev 20:9 (Greek version).</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">‘What I would have given to you is Corban’ (that is, a gift).</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:15 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add verse 16, </span><span class="it">Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.</span><span class="ft"> Compare 4:9, 23.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add </span><span class="it">and Sidon.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">unclean.</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:27 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Let the children eat first.</span><br><span class="fn">l</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:31 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Decapolis.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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