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Themes in Mark 7
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Themes in Mark 7

Mark 7:1

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

Mark 7:2

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

Mark 7:4

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

Mark 7:5

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

Mark 7:6

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

Mark 7:7

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

Mark 7:8

"You give up what God has commanded and hold fast to what men have handed down.

Mark 7:9

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

Mark 7:11

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,

Mark 7:12

you let him off from doing anything more for his father or mother,

Mark 7:13

and so you nullify what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many such practices."

Mark 7:14

He called the people to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this.

Mark 7:15

Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

Mark 7:16

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Mark 7:17

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

Mark 7:18

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

Mark 7:19

since it does not go into his heart but into his stomach and then is disposed of?" So he declared all food clean.

Mark 7:20

He went on to say, "It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him.

Mark 7:21

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

Mark 7:23

Mark 7:24

He left that place and went to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a certain house, and wanted no one to know of it. And he could not keep it secret,

Mark 7:25

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

Mark 7:26

Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:27

He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Mark 7:28

But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!"

Mark 7:29

He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

Mark 7:30

And she went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Mark 7:31

He left the neighborhood of Tyre again and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the district of the Ten Towns.

Mark 7:32

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

Mark 7:33

He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.

Mark 7:34

And he looked up to heaven and sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"??hich means "Open."

Mark 7:35

And his ears were opened and his tongue was released and he talked plainly.

Mark 7:36

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

Mark 7:37

And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"
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