LO - Mark - 7

7:1  Now the Pharisees, and some scribes who came from Jerusalem, resorted to Jesus.

7:2  And observing some of his disciples eating with impure hands, that is, unwashed hands;

7:3  (for the Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews who observed the tradition of the elders, eat not until they have have washed their hands by pouring a little water upon them:

7:4  and if they be come from the market, by dipping them; and many other usages there are, which they have adopted, as immersions of cups and pots, and brazen vessels and beds:)

7:5  then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Whence comes it that your disciples observe not the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?

7:6  He answering, said to them, O hypocrites! well do you suit the character, which Isaiah gave of you, when he said, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is estranged from me.

7:7  In vain, however, they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human."

7:8  For laying aside the commandment of God, you retain the traditions of men, immersions of pots and cups, and many other similar practices.

7:9  You judge well, continued he, in annulling the commandment of God, to make room for your traditions.

7:10  For Moses has said, "Honor your father and mother" and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, shall be punished with death."

7:11  But you maintain, if a man say to father or mother, "Be it corban (that is, devoted) whatever of mine shall profit you";

7:12  he must not thenceforth do anything for his father or mother;

7:13  thus invalidating the word of God, by the tradition which you have established. And in many other instances you act thus.

7:14  Then having called the whole multitude, he said to them, Hearken to me all of you, and be instructed.

7:15  There is nothing from without, which entering into the man, can pollute him; but the things which proceed from within the man, are the things that pollute him.

7:16  If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.

7:17  When he had withdrawn from the people into a house, his disciples asked him the meaning of that sentence.

7:18  He answered, Are you also void of understanding? Do you not perceive, that whatsoever from without enters into the man, can not pollute him;

7:19  because it enters not into his heart, but into his stomach, whence all impurities in the victuals pass into the sink.

7:20  But, added he, that which proceeds out of the man, is what pollutes the man:

7:21  for from within the human heart proceed vicious machinations, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

7:22  insatiable desires, malevolence, fraud, immodesty, envy, calumny, arrogance, levity.

7:23  All these evils issue from within, and pollute the man.

7:24  Then he arose, and went to the frontiers of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered a house, he desired that none might know of him; but he could not be concealed.

7:25  For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, hearing of him, came and threw herself at his feet,

7:26  (the woman was a Greek, a native of Syrophenicia,) and entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

7:27  Jesus answered, Let the children first be satisfied; for it is not seemly to take the children bread, and throw it to the dogs.

7:28  She replied, True, Sir; yet even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

7:29  He said to her, For this answer go home; the demon is gone out of your daughter.

7:30  Immediately she went home, and found her daughter lying upon the bed, and freed from the demon.

7:31  Then leaving the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he returned to the sea of Galilee, through the precincts of Decapolis.

7:32  And they brought to him a deaf man, who had also an impediment in his speech, and entreated him to lay his hand upon him.

7:33  Jesus having taken him aside from the crowd, spit upon his own fingers, and put them into the man's ears, and touched his tongue.

7:34  Then looking up to heaven, and sighing, he said, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

7:35  Immediately his ears were opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke distinctly.

7:36  He charged them to tell no person: but the more he charged them, the more they published it,

7:37  saying with inexpressible amazement, He does everything well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.