[Mark 7]

 

             {Joh 6:22-71 Synagogue in Capernaum.}

             {Mar 7:1-23 & Mat 15:1-20 & Joh 7:1 Galilee, probably Capernaum, Spring 29 AD.}

             ^7:1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes are gathered together to see him, after they came from Jerusalem, ^7:2 and saw some of his disciples eating their bread with unwashed (that is common) hands; they found-fault. ^7:3 For^* the Pharisees and all the Jews, if they do not wash their hands scrubbing with the fist, do not eat, holding-fast the tradition of the elders; ^7:4 and when coming from the marketplace, they do not eat if they have not immersed^* {bathe} themselves first, and there are many other things which they took to holding-fast, like immersions^* {Or, O.T. ceremonial washings} of cups and pint pitchers and brass kettles and beds. ^7:5 Thereafter, the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why are your disciples not walking according-to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?

             ^7:6 But he answered and said to them, Isaiah prophesied well concerning you^° hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is distant, faraway from me. ^7:7 But they are worshiping me in futility, teaching as their teachings the commandments of men.’ {Isa 29:13} ^7:8 For^* after you^° left the commandment of God, you^° are holding-fast the tradition of men, like immersions^* of pint pitchers and cups, and you^° practice many other such similar things.

             ^7:9 And he said to them, You^° are rejecting well the commandment of God, in-order-that you^° might keep your^° tradition. ^7:10 For^* Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ {Exo 20:12 & Deu 5:16} And, ‘He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ {Exo 21:17 & Lev 20:9} ^7:11 But you^° say, If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever you might be profited from me is Corban (which is a gift). ^7:12 And so you^° no longer allow him to do^* anything for his father or for his mother, ^7:13 invalidating the word of God (which you^° gave up) by your^° tradition, and you^° practice many such similar things.

             ^7:14 And he called all the crowd and was saying to them, All, hear^° me and understand^°. ^7:15 There is nothing outside the man, which traveling into him is able to desecrate him, but the things which travel out from him, those are the things which desecrate the man. ^7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

 

             ^7:17 And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples were asking him concerning the parable. ^7:18 And he says to them, So are you^° also without understanding? Are you^° not perceiving, that everything outside which travels into the man, is not able to desecrate him; ^7:19 because it is not traveling into the heart, but into the belly and travels into the sewer? (He said thus, cleansing all foods.) ^7:20 Now he was saying, What travels out from the man, this desecrates the man. ^7:21 For^* evil reasonings travel from inside, out-of the heart of men, such as: adulteries, fornications, murders, ^7:22 thefts, greedy-acts, wickednesses, treachery, unbridled-lust, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness. ^7:23 All these evil things travel out from inside, and desecrate the man.

 

             {Mar 7:24 & Mat 15:21.}

             ^7:24 And he stood up and went away from there, into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house and was wishing none to know it, and he was not able to elude them.

 

             {Mar 7:25-30 & Mat 15:22-28 Tyre and Sidon.}

             ^7:25 For^* a woman heard things concerning him (whose young-daughter herself was holding an unclean spirit), and came and fell down before his feet. ^7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she was asking of him in-order-that he might cast forth the demon out-of her daughter. ^7:27 But Jesus said to her, Allow the children first to be fully-fed; for^* it is not good to take the children’s bread and cast it to the puppies.

             ^7:28 But she answered, and says to him, Yes, Lord; for^* even the puppies underneath the table eat from the children’s crumbs.

             ^7:29 And he said to her, Because of this, the word, proceed-away; the demon has gone forth out-of your daughter. ^7:30 And she went away to her house and found her daughter has been put upon a bed, the demon has gone forth.

 

             {Mar 7:31 & Mat 15:29 Avoiding Herod’s territory.}

             ^7:31 And again, he went forth from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, between the borders of Decapolis.

 

             {Mar 7:32-37 & Mat 15:30-31 Magadan and Bethsaida Summer 29 AD.}

             ^7:32 And they bring to him a speaking impaired deaf man and they are pleading with him in-order-that he might lay his hand upon him. ^7:33 And he took him away from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. ^7:34 And he looked up to heaven and groaned and says to him, Ephphatha; (which is, Be opened). ^7:35 And immediately his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking correctly. ^7:36 And he ordered them in-order-that they should tell no one, but as many things as he himself was ordering them not to tell, rather, they were preaching it even-more.

             ^7:37 And they were being abundantly astounded, saying, He has done^* all things well; he makes^* even the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.