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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/mark/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Traditions and Commandments</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>they saw that some of his disciples ate 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>(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek unless they wash the hands with a fist, probably indicating a kind of ceremonial washing">a</a></sup></span> holding to the tradition of the elders, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek unless they baptize; some manuscripts unless they purify themselves">b</a></sup></span> And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit and dining couches">c</a></sup></span>) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">“‘This people honors me with their lips,</span><br /><span class="indent">but their heart is far from me;</span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">in vain do they worship me,</span><br /><span class="indent">teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’</span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="woc">You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or an offering">d</a></sup></span>—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woc">then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”</span></p> <p class="heading">What Defiles a Person</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he called the people to him again and said to them, <span class="woc">“Hear me, all of you, and understand:</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woc">There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts add verse 16: If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear">e</a></sup></span></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="woc">since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek goes out into the latrine">f</a></sup></span></span> (Thus he declared all foods clean.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he said, <span class="woc">“What comes out of a person is what defiles him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="woc">For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="woc">coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="woc">All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit and Sidon">g</a></sup></span> And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he said to her, <span class="woc">“Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he said to her, <span class="woc">“For this statement you may go your way; 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 she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Heals a Deaf Man</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, <span class="woc">“Ephphatha,”</span> that is, <span class="woc">“Be opened.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">h</a></sup></span> charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">unless they wash</span> the hands with a fist</i>, probably indicating a kind of ceremonial washing<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">unless they</span> baptize</i>; some manuscripts <i><span class="catch-word">unless they</span> purify themselves</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">and dining couches</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>an offering</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Some manuscripts add verse 16: <i>If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Greek <i>goes out into the latrine</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">and Sidon</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> Greek <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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