Mark 7
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Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow. Theophylact. [Pugme,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.

the tradition.

Mark 7:7-10,13 However, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments …

Matthew 15:2-6 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for …

Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own …

Colossians 2:8,21-23 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, …

1 Peter 1:18 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …

And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

It is Corban. Rather, 'Let it be a corban,' a formula common among the Jews on such occasions; by which the Pharisees released a child from supporting his parents; and even deemed it sacrilege if he afterwards gave anything for their use.

Matthew 15:5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is …

Matthew 23:18 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever …

1 Timothy 5:4-8 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to …

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

There. Though it is very true, says Dr. Doddridge, that a man may bring guilt upon himself by eating to excess, and a Jew, by eating what was forbidden by the Mosaic law; yet still the pollution would arise from the wickedness of the heart, and be just proportionable to it, which is all our Lord asserts.

nothing.

Mark 7:18-20 And he said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you …

Leviticus 11:42-47 Whatever goes on the belly, and whatever goes on all four, or whatever …

Acts 10:14-16,28 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that …

Acts 11:8-10 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any …

Acts 15:20,21 But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, …

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, …

1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for …

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats…

Titus 1:15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and …

Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …

Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is …

but.

Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man…

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …

Matthew 15:16 And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

out.

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …

Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, …

Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that …

Psalm 14:1,3 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …

Psalm 53:1,3 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, …

Psalm 58:2,3 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your …

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …

Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …

Luke 16:15 And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before …

Acts 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was …

Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …

Romans 7:5,8 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by …

Romans 8:7,8 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …

Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, …

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…

James 4:1-3 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …

1 Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to …

evil.

Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish …

Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …

Ezekiel 38:10 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …

Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think you evil in your hearts?

James 2:4 Are you not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

covetousness, wickedness. Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses. an evil.

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, …

Deuteronomy 28:54,56 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his …

1 Samuel 18:8,9 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, …

Proverbs 23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire …

Proverbs 28:22 He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that …

Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …

pride.

2 Chronicles 32:25,26,31 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …

Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after …

Obadiah 1:3,4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …

foolishness.

Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction …

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 27:22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, …

Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …

1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence …

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

he took.

Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, …

Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; …

1 Kings 17:19-22 And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her …

2 Kings 4:4-6,33,34 And when you are come in, you shall shut the door on you and on your …

John 9:6,7 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of …

put. This was clearly a symbolical action; for these remedies evidently could not, by their natural efficacy, avail to produce so wonderful an effect. As the ears of the deaf appear closed, he applies his fingers to intimate that he would open them; and as the tongue of the dumb seems to be tied, or to cleave to the palate, he touches it, to intimate he would give loose and free motion to it. He accommodated himself to the weakness of those who might not indeed doubt his power, but fancy some external sign was requisite to healing. It was also thus made manifest, that this salutiferous power came from Himself, and that He who by one word, [ephphatha,] had healed the man, must be Divine.

And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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