nsb - Mark:7

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.«

nsb@Mark:7:24 @ 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.

nsb@Mark:7:25 @ A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down.

nsb@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a Greek Syrophoenician by race. She wanted him to drive out the demon out of her daughter.

nsb@Mark:7:27 @ He said to her: »Let the children be fed first. It is not proper to take the childrens bread and cast it to the dogs.«

nsb@Mark:7:28 @ She answered: »Yes Lord, even the dogs under the table eat from the childrens crumbs.«

nsb@Mark:7:29 @ Then he replied: »Thanks to your answer you may leave for the demon has gone out of your daughter.«

nsb@Mark:7:30 @ She went to her house and found the child on the bed with the demon gone.

nsb@Mark:7:31 @ He left the borders of Tyre through Sidon, through the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.

nsb@Mark:7:32 @ They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him.

nsb@Mark:7:33 @ Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

nsb@Mark:7:34 @ Looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him: »Ephphatha, that is, be opened.«

nsb@Mark:7:35 @ His ears were opened. His tongue was freed and he spoke plainly.

nsb@Mark:7:36 @ Jesus told them not to tell anyone. The more he told them not to talk the more they talked.

nsb@Mark:7:37 @ They were beside themselves with amazement saying: He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak.