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Mark 7 in the Unitarian Standard Version Bible

 

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Mark 7


1 And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands with the fist, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels [and beds].)
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? 6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. 7 But in vain do they worship(a) me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may establish your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death(b): 11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God]; 12 ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or mother; 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have handed down: and many such like things ye do. 14 And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of a man are what defile a man(c). 17 And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him this parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the privy? [This he said], making all food clean. 20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye(d), slander, pride, foolishness: 23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

24 And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid. 25 But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. 27 And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not right to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs. 28 But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children`s crumbs. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter. 30 And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.

31 And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. 32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. 33 And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; 34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And [immediately] his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. 36 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. 37 And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

Footnotes

Omitted verse: Mark 7:16 [If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.] Mark 7:16  is omitted from the main text in many modern Bible translations because it is missing from the oldest and most historically reliable Greek manuscripts.
(a) Worship, Greek: "sebomai."  "For will Trinitarians show me where, in the New Testament, either of the two remaining terms, sebomai, and latreuo, both of which express divine worship in the religious sense, -is applied to Jesus Christ? if they cannot, and I know they cannot, it is an argument of the greatest weight to prove, that Christ was never regarded, by the writers of the New Testament, as the object of religious worship. These two terms are frequently applied to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but never to Christ himself. He is entitled to honour, praise, and gratitude, but not to divine worship." ~Article in the Bible Christian 1838, p.295
(b)
Exodus 21:17 "And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death." "Die the death" = "surely die" (Bullinger)
(c) "Nothing that enters the man from without can pollute him; but, on the contrary, that which comes out of the man, that is what pollutes him." Fenton
(d) "The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul. The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up. An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his fill of bread, but shall be needy and pensive at his own table." Sirach 14:8-10 Douay

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Mark 7 in the Unitarian Standard Version Bible

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