nsb - Mark:7:1-23

nsb@Mark:7:1 @ The Pharisees and some of the scribes came from Jerusalem to gather around Jesus.

nsb@Mark:7:2 @ They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.

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nsb@Mark:7:4 @ 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.

nsb@Mark:7:5 @ 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?«

nsb@Mark:7:6 @ 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.

nsb@Mark:7:7 @ They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.«

nsb@Mark:7:8 @ Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: »You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

nsb@Mark:7:9 @ »You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition.

nsb@Mark:7:10 @ »Moses said: Honor your father and your mother. He also said: He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.

nsb@Mark:7:11 @ »But you say: If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God,

nsb@Mark:7:12 @ he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.

nsb@Mark:7:13 @ »You make the word of God invalid by your tradition.«

nsb@Mark:7:14 @ He called the crowd again and said: »Listen and understand!

nsb@Mark:7:15 @ »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.

nsb@Mark:7:16 @ »If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.«

nsb@Mark:7:17 @ When he entered the house away from the crowd his disciples asked him to explain.

nsb@Mark:7:18 @ He replied: »Do you not understand? Do you not know that which goes into the man from the outside cannot defile him?

nsb@Mark:7:19 @ »It is because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and is eliminated? All foods are clean.

nsb@Mark:7:20 @ »That which comes out of the man defiles the man.

nsb@Mark:7:21 @ »It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

nsb@Mark:7:22 @ coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

nsb@Mark:7:23 @ »All these evil things come from within and defile the man.«