web - Mark:7:1-23

web@Mark:7:1 @ Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

web@Mark:7:2 @ Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

web@Mark:7:3 @ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

web@Mark:7:4 @ They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

web@Mark:7:5 @ The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

web@Mark:7:6 @ He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

web@Mark:7:7 @ But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' {Isaiah strkjv@29:13}

web@Mark:7:8 @ "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

web@Mark:7:9 @ He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

web@Mark:7:10 @ For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' {Exodus strkjv@20:12; Deuteronomy strkjv@5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' {Exodus strkjv@21:17; Leviticus strkjv@20:9}

web@Mark:7:11 @ But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban {Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say, given to God";'

web@Mark:7:12 @ then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

web@Mark:7:13 @ making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

web@Mark:7:14 @ He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.

web@Mark:7:15 @ There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

web@Mark:7:16 @ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

web@Mark:7:17 @ When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

web@Mark:7:18 @ He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

web@Mark:7:19 @ because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods {or, making all foods clean}?"

web@Mark:7:20 @ He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

web@Mark:7:21 @ For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

web@Mark:7:22 @ covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

web@Mark:7:23 @ All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."