geneva@Mark:7:1 @ Then (note:)None resist the wisdom of God more than they that should be wisest, and they resist because of their zeal for their own traditions: for men please themselves in superstition more than in any other thing, that is to say, in a worship of God fondly devised by themselves.(:note) came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
geneva@Mark:7:2 @ And when they saw some of his disciples (note:)Literally, «eat bread»: an idiom which the Hebrews use, understanding bread to represent every type of food.(:note) eat bread with For the Pharisees would not eat their food with unwashed hands, because they thought that their hands were defiled with the common handling of things; (Mat_15:11-12). defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
geneva@Mark:7:3 @ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, (note:)Observing diligently.(:note) holding the tradition of the elders.
geneva@Mark:7:4 @ And [when they come] from the (note:)That is to say, after coming from civil and worldly affairs they do not eat unless they first wash themselves.(:note) market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, [as] the washing of cups, and By these words are understood all types of vessels which we use daily. pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
geneva@Mark:7:5 @ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why (note:)Why live they not? This is a Hebrew idiom: for among them the «way» is taken for «lifestyle».(:note) walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
geneva@Mark:7:10 @ For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him (note:)Without hope of pardon, he will be put to death.(:note) die the death:
geneva@Mark:7:11 @ But yee say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, that is, By the gift that is offered by mee, thou mayest haue profite, hee shall be free.
geneva@Mark:7:12 @ So ye suffer him no more to doe any thing for his father, or his mother,
geneva@Mark:7:13 @ Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.
geneva@Mark:7:14 @ Then he called the whole multitude vnto him, and sayd vnto them, Hearken you all vnto me, and vnderstand.
geneva@Mark:7:15 @ There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.
geneva@Mark:7:17 @ And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
geneva@Mark:7:18 @ And he sayde vnto them, What? Are ye without vnderstanding also? Doe ye not knowe that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into a man, cannot defile him,
geneva@Mark:7:19 @ Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, (note:)For that which goes into the draught purges all meats.(:note) purging all meats?
geneva@Mark:7:20 @ Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man.
geneva@Mark:7:21 @ For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers,
geneva@Mark:7:22 @ Thefts, (note:)All types of craftiness by which men profit themselves at other men's losses.(:note) covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an Corrupted malice. evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
geneva@Mark:7:25 @ For a certaine woman, whose litle daughter had an vncleane spirit, heard of him, and came, and fell at his feete,
geneva@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a (note:)By nationality, profane.(:note) Greek, a A neighbour of or near to Damascus. Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
geneva@Mark:7:27 @ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the (note:)«Dog» here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully.(:note) dogs.
geneva@Mark:7:28 @ And she answered and said unto him, (note:)As if she said, «It is as thou sayest Lord, for it is enough for the dogs if they can but gather up the crumbs that are under the table; therefore I crave the crumbs and not the children's bread.»(:note) Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
geneva@Mark:7:29 @ Then he said vnto her, For this saying goe thy way: the deuil is gone out of thy daughter.
geneva@Mark:7:30 @ And when shee was come home to her house, shee founde the deuill departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.
geneva@Mark:7:32 @ And they brought vnto him one that was deafe and stambered in his speache, and prayed him to put his hand vpon him.
geneva@Mark:7:33 @ Then hee tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his eares, and did spit, and touched his tongue.
geneva@Mark:7:34 @ And looking vp to heauen, hee sighed, and said vnto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
geneva@Mark:7:35 @ And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.
geneva@Mark:7:36 @ And he commanded them, that they should tell no man: but howe much soeuer hee forbad them, the more a great deale they published it,
geneva@Mark:7:37 @ And were beyonde measure astonied, saying, Hee hath done all thinges well: he maketh both the deafe to heare, & the domme to speake.