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Text -- Mark 7:1-36 (NET)
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Breaking Human Traditions
7:1 Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him .
7:2 And they saw that some of Jesus ’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands , that is , unwashed .
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 .
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.)
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 ?”
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 .
7:7 They worship me in vain , teaching as doctrine the commandments of men .’
7:8 Having no regard for the command of God , you hold fast to human tradition .”
7:9 He also said to them , “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition .
7:10 For Moses said , ‘Honor your father and your mother ,’ and , ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death .’
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),
7:12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother .
7:13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down . And you do many things like this .”
7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them , “Listen to me , everyone , and understand .
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 .”
7:16 [[EMPTY]]A Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
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 .
7:25 Instead , a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet .
7:26 The woman was a Greek , of Syrophoenician origin . She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter .
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 .”
7:28 She answered , “Yes , Lord , but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs .”
7:29 Then he said to her , “Because you said this , you may go . The demon has left your daughter .”
7:30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed , and the demon gone .
Healing a Deaf Mute
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 .
7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking , and they asked him to place his hands on him .
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 .
7:34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh , “Ephphatha ” (that is , “Be opened ”).
7:35 And immediately the man’s ears were opened , his tongue loosened , and he spoke plainly .
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 . more .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Pharisees |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
Jesus, The Christ |
ABLUTION |
MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 1 |
Commandments |
Ecclesiasticism |
UNCLEANNESS |
WASHING OF FEET |
Tradition |
Washing |
Government |
HOLINESS |
Miracles |
Purification |
Tyre |
ZAREPHATH |
Syrophenician |
Sidon |
Faith |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Mar 7:1; Mar 7:1; Mar 7:1; Mar 7:1; Mar 7:3; Mar 7:4; Mar 7:4; Mar 7:5; Mar 7:6; Mar 7:7; Mar 7:8; Mar 7:8; Mar 7:9; Mar 7:10; Mar 7:10; Mar 7:11; Mar 7:13; Mar 7:14; Mar 7:16; Mar 7:17; Mar 7:17; Mar 7:19; Mar 7:19; Mar 7:24; Mar 7:24; Mar 7:24; Mar 7:24; Mar 7:25; Mar 7:26; Mar 7:27; Mar 7:27; Mar 7:29; Mar 7:31; Mar 7:31; Mar 7:31; Mar 7:31; Mar 7:31; Mar 7:33; Mar 7:33; Mar 7:33; Mar 7:34; Mar 7:34; Mar 7:35; Mar 7:36
NET Notes: Mar 7:1 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:3 Grk “except they wash the hands with a fist,” a ceremonial washing (though the actual method is uncertain).
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NET Notes: Mar 7:4 Verses 3-4 represent parenthetical remarks by the author, giving background information.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:8 The majority of mss, mostly Byzantine ([A] Ë13 33 Ï), have at the end of v. 8 material that seems to have come from v. 4 and v. 13: “t...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:9 The translation here follows the reading στήσητε (sthshte, “set up”) found in D W Θ Ë1 28 56...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:11 Corban is a Hebrew loanword (transliterated in the Greek text and in most modern English translations) referring to something that has been set aside ...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:14 Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the n...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:16 Most later mss add 7:16 “Let anyone with ears to hear, listen.” This verse is included in A D W Θ Ë1,13 33 Ï latt sy, but i...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:17 Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:24 Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:26 Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:27 The term dogs does not refer to wild dogs (scavenging animals roaming around the countryside) in this context, but to small dogs taken in as house pet...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:29 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:31 The Decapolis refers to a league of towns (originally consisting of ten; the Greek name literally means “ten towns”) whose region (except ...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:33 After spitting, he touched his tongue. It was not uncommon in Judaism of the day to associate curative powers with a person’s saliva. The scene ...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:34 The author’s parenthetical note gives the meaning of the Aramaic word Ephphatha.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:35 Grk “his”; the referent (the man who had been a deaf mute) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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