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    Mark 7

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    Jesus tried to disappear into a house in Tyre, was noticed anyway, and later found that the more he ordered silence, the louder the news became. In between came a healing conducted by fingers, spittle, and a single word: “Be opened!”

    Tradition and the command of Godvv. 1–13

    Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus after seeing some disciples eat with unwashed hands. Their concern extends, with almost magnificent thoroughness, to cups, pitchers, kettles, and dining couches. Jesus answers that tradition can become a very tidy way of setting aside the command of God, and points to the practice of calling support for one's parents Corban—a gift devoted to God—until nothing remains for the parents at all.

    What goes in, and what comes outvv. 14–23

    Jesus calls the crowd to listen, then gives food a remarkably mundane itinerary: it reaches the stomach and is eliminated, rather than entering the heart. The disciples require a private explanation, and receive a list of what does come from within—evil thoughts, theft, murder, deceit, envy, arrogance, and foolishness among the troublesome company.

    The house that could not keep quietvv. 24–37

    Jesus goes to the region of Tyre intending not to be noticed, but notice arrives before privacy has properly begun. A Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin keeps asking for her daughter's deliverance; her answer about crumbs under the table wins the word that sends her home to find the demon gone. Then Jesus passes through Sidon to the region of the Decapolis, where a deaf man hardly able to speak is taken aside for a strikingly physical healing: fingers in the ears, spittle, a touch to the tongue, a sigh towards heaven, and “Ephphatha!” The command to keep silent has, by the final verse, produced astonishment and the opposite of silence.

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    1. Mark 7:1Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,

    2. Mark 7:2and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.

    3. Mark 7:3Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

    4. Mark 7:4And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.

    5. Mark 7:5So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

    6. Mark 7:6Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

    7. Mark 7:7They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

    8. Mark 7:8You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

    9. Mark 7:9He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

    10. Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

    11. Mark 7:11But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),

    12. Mark 7:12he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

    13. Mark 7:13Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

    14. Mark 7:14Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:

    15. Mark 7:15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

    16. Mark 7:17After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.

    17. Mark 7:18“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

    18. Mark 7:19because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

    19. Mark 7:20He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

    20. Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

    21. Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

    22. Mark 7:23All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

    23. Mark 7:24Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice.

    24. Mark 7:25Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.

    25. Mark 7:26Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

    26. Mark 7:27“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

    27. Mark 7:28“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

    28. Mark 7:29Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

    29. Mark 7:30And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

    30. Mark 7:31Then Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.

    31. Mark 7:32Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

    32. Mark 7:33So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

    33. Mark 7:34And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).

    34. Mark 7:35Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.

    35. Mark 7:36Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

    36. Mark 7:37The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”

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    • 6Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
    • 6Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
    • 6Matthew 15:7–9You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
    • 6Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
    • 62 Timothy 3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
    • 6Matthew 23:13–15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
    • 6James 2:14–17What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
    • 6John 5:42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
    • 6Luke 11:39–44Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
    • 6John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
    • 6Hosea 8:2–3Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
    • 6Acts 28:25They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
    • 21Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
    • 24Matthew 15:21–28Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
    • 7Matthew 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
    • 10Exodus 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

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