Gospel According To Mark

Gospel According to Mark (MLV)

Mark 7)

(Mk 7:1-23 & Mt 15:1-20 & Jn 7:1) Galilee, probably Caperanum Spring 29 AD

^7:1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes are gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem,^7:2 and having seen some of his disciples that they ate their bread with _<7>defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.^7:3 (For* the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands _<8>up to the elbow, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders;^7:4 and when they come from the marketplace, unless they _<9>bathe themselves, they do not eat; and there are many other things, which they received to hold, _<10>ceremonial washings* of cups and pint pitchers and brass kettles and cots.^7:5 The Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?

^7:6 But he answering, said to them, Isaiah did prophesy well concerning you* hypocrites, as it has been written, 'This people are honoring me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.^7:7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.' {Is. 29:13}^7:8 For* you* leave the commandment of God and hold fast the tradition of men, like _<11>ceremonial washings* of pint pitchers and cups and you* do many other such similar things.^7:9 And he said to them, Full well do you* reject the commandment of God, that you* may keep your* tradition.^7:10 For* Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother.' {Ex. 20:12 & DT. 5:16} And, 'He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him die the death. {Ex. 21:17 & Lev. 20:9}^7:11 But you* say, If a man will say to his father or his mother, That with what you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God ;^7:12 and you* no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother;^7:13 making invalid the word of God by your* tradition, which you* have delivered and you* do many such similar things.^7:14 And having called to him all the crowd again, he said to them, All of you* hear me and understand:^7:15 there is nothing outside the man, that going into him is able to defile him; but the things which go out from the him, those are the things which defile the man.^7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.^7:17 And when he had entered into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.^7:18 And he says to them thus, Are you* without understanding also? Do you* not perceive, that whatever is outside, going into the man, is not able to defile him;^7:19 because it does not enter into his heart, but into his belly and goes out into the sewer? He said this, making all foods clean.^7:20 And he said, That which proceeds out of the man, defiles the man.^7:2¹ For* evil reasonings proceed, from inside, out of the heart of men: adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,^7:22 acts of covetousness, wickednesses, guile, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness:^7:23 all these evil things proceed from inside and defile the man.

(Mk 7:24 & Mt 15:21)

(Mk 7:25-30 & Mt 15:22-28) Tyre and Sidon

^7:24 And he arose from there and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house and would have no one know it; and he could not be hid.^7:25 For* a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come to him, fell down at his feet.^7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she requested him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.^7:27 But Jesus said to her, Allow the children first to be filled: for* it is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs.

^7:28 But she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord; for* even the little dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.^7:29 And he said to her, Because of these words, go your way; the demon is gone out of your daughter.^7:30 And she went away to her house and found the child laid upon the cot and the demon gone out.

(Mk 7:31 & Mt 15:29) Avoiding Herod's territory

(Mk 7:32-8:9 & Mt 15:30-38) Magadan and Bethsaida Summer 29 AD

^7:31 And again he having gone out from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.^7:32 And they bring to him one who was deaf, who had a speech impediment; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.^7:33 And having taken him away from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue;^7:34 and looking up to heaven, he groaned and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.^7:35 And immediately his ears were opened and the bond of his tongue was loosed and he spoke plain.^7:36 And he ordered them that they should tell no one: but the more he ordered them, they instead preached it even-more.^7:37 And they were abundantly astounded, saying, He has done all things well; he makes even the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

<7> 7:2- OR: common

<8> 7:3- Greek: with the fist

<9> 7:4 Lit.: immerse; baptize;

<10> 7:8 Greek baptize

<11> 7:4 Greek: baptizings