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Mark 7 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Followers of Tradition

(Mat 15:1–20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:1 - Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:2 - And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:3 - (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:4 - And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:5 - The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:6 - He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:7 - They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:8 - Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:9 - He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:10 - For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:11 - But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:12 - then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:13 - Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."

The Heart of Man

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:14 - Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:15 - There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:17 - Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:18 - He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:19 - For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:20 - He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:21 - For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:22 - adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:23 - All these evils come from within and defile a person."

The Syrophoenician Woman

(Mat 15:21–28 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:24 - After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:25 - Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:26 - The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:27 - He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:28 - She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:29 - Then he said to her, "Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:30 - She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
(Mat 15:29–31 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:31 - Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:32 - They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man's ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:34 - Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, "Ephphatha" (that is, "Be opened" ).

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35 - And immediately the man's ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:36 - Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:37 - People were completely astounded and said, "He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
NET Footnotes
Most later mss add 7:16 "Let anyone with ears to hear, listen."
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