Thematic Bible
Mark 7:1 (show verse)
The Pharisees and some of the scribes came from Jerusalem to gather around Jesus.
Mark 7:2 (show verse)
They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.
Mark 7:3 (show verse)
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)
Mark 7:4 (show verse)
When they come from the marketplace they wash themselves before they eat. They follow many other rules. They wash their cups, and brass pots, and other vessels.
Mark 7:5 (show verse)
The Pharisees and the scribes asked: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders. Instead they eat their bread with defiled hands?
Mark 7:6 (show verse)
He told them: Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites. It is written: 'This people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 (show verse)
They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'
Mark 7:8 (show verse)
Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
Mark 7:9 (show verse)
You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition.
Mark 7:10 (show verse)
Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'
Mark 7:11 (show verse)
But you say: 'If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God,
Mark 7:12 (show verse)
he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.'
Mark 7:13 (show verse)
You make the word of God invalid by your tradition.
Mark 7:14 (show verse)
He called the crowd again and said: Listen and understand!
Mark 7:15 (show verse)
Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. That which comes from inside of a man can make him unclean.
Mark 7:16 (show verse)
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark 7:17 (show verse)
When he entered the house away from the crowd his disciples asked him to explain.
Mark 7:18 (show verse)
He replied: Do you not understand? Do you not know that which goes into the man from the outside cannot defile him?
Mark 7:19 (show verse)
It is because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and is eliminated? All foods are clean.
Mark 7:20 (show verse)
That which comes out of the man defiles the man.
Mark 7:21 (show verse)
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Mark 7:22 (show verse)
coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
Mark 7:23 (show verse)
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.
Mark 7:24 (show verse)
Jesus went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He did not want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However it could not be kept a secret.
Mark 7:25 (show verse)
A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down.
Mark 7:26 (show verse)
The woman was a Greek Syrophoenician by race. She wanted him to drive out the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 7:27 (show verse)
He said to her: Let the children be fed first. It is not proper to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
Mark 7:28 (show verse)
She answered: Yes Lord, even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.
Mark 7:29 (show verse)
Then he replied: Thanks to your answer you may leave for the demon has gone out of your daughter.
Mark 7:30 (show verse)
She went to her house and found the child on the bed with the demon gone.
Mark 7:31 (show verse)
He left the borders of Tyre through Sidon, through the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.
Mark 7:32 (show verse)
They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him.
Mark 7:33 (show verse)
Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
Mark 7:34 (show verse)
Looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him: Ephphatha, that is, be opened.
Mark 7:35 (show verse)
His ears were opened. His tongue was freed and he spoke plainly.
Mark 7:36 (show verse)
Jesus told them not to tell anyone. The more he told them not to talk the more they talked.
Mark 7:37 (show verse)
They were beside themselves with amazement saying: He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak.