rsv Mark:7:1-23
rsv@Mark:7:1 @ Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
rsv@Mark:7:2 @ they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
rsv@Mark:7:3 @ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
rsv@Mark:7:4 @ and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
rsv@Mark:7:5 @ And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?"
rsv@Mark:7:6 @ And he said to 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;
rsv@Mark:7:7 @ in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'
rsv@Mark:7:8 @ You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men."
rsv@Mark:7:9 @ And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
rsv@Mark:7:10 @ For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
rsv@Mark:7:11 @ but you say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God)--
rsv@Mark:7:12 @ then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
rsv@Mark:7:13 @ thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."
rsv@Mark:7:14 @ And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand:
rsv@Mark:7:15 @ there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him."
rsv@Mark:7:16 @ And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
rsv@Mark:7:17 @ And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,
rsv@Mark:7:18 @ since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
rsv@Mark:7:19 @ And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
rsv@Mark:7:20 @ For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
rsv@Mark:7:21 @ coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
rsv@Mark:7:22 @ All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."
rsv@Mark:7:23 @ And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid.
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