Mark 7

Mark 7:1

• The Pharisees and some of the
• Some Pharisees and some

• scribes who
• teachers of the

• had
• Law who had
• law who had

• come from

• Jerusalem.
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem,

• gathered around

• Jesus.
• Jesus
• Him.
• him.
• him,
• him

Mark 7:2

• they
• They
• Now when they

• saw that some of
• noticed that some of
• saw some of
• observed that some of

• his
• His

• disciples

• were eating
• ate

• their bread with

• defiled, that
• unclean,” that
• unclean, that
• unclean—that

• is,

• unwashed—
• unwashed
• unwashed,

• hands.

Mark 7:3

• (For the Pharisees, and all the
• (For the Pharisees and all the
• The Pharisees and all the
• (The Pharisees and all the

• Jews
• Jews—
• Jews,

• do
• will

• not
• n’t

• eat unless
• eat without

• they wash their

• hands,
• hands

• thus observing the

• tradition of the
• traditions of the

• elders,
• elders.
• elders;

Mark 7:4

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:5

• The Pharisees and the
• So the Pharisees and
• So the Pharisees and the
• And the Pharisees and the
• The Pharisees and

• scribes
• teachers of the Law
• teachers of the law

• asked

• Him, “Why
• him, ‘Why
• him, “Why
• Jesus, “Why
• Jesus, ‘Why

• do

• your
• Your

• disciples not live according to the tradition of the

• elders, but
• elders but
• elders,
• elders

• eat their bread with
• eat with
• eat their food with

• unclean
• unclean’
• defiled
• unwashed

• hands?’
• hands?”
• hands?

Mark 7:6

• He
• Jesus
• And he
• And He

• said to
• answered

• them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you

• hypocrites, as
• hypocrites; as

• it is

• written, “‘This
• written: ‘This
• written, ‘This
• written: “‘These
• written: These

• people

• honors
• honor

• me with
• Me with

• their

• lips, But
• lips, but
• words. But
• words, but

• their

• hearts
• heart

• are
• is

• far from
• far away from

• me.
• me:
• me;
• Me.

Mark 7:7

• In vain do
• in vain do
• But in vain do
• ‘But in vain do

• they worship

• Me,
• me,

• Teaching as
• teaching as

• doctrines the

• commandments of
• precepts of

• men.”
• men;
• men.
• men.’

Mark 7:8

• “You
• You
• You have

• abandon the commandment of

• God and
• God, and
• God to

• hold to the tradition of

• men.”
• men.’

Mark 7:9

• And he
• Then he
• He

• said to them, “You have a fine way of

• setting aside the
• rejecting the

• commandment of
• commands of
• command of

• God, in
• God in

• order to

• keep
• establish

• your
• your own

• tradition.
• tradition!
• own teachings!
• own teachings.
• traditions!
• own teaching.
• teachings!
• teachings.

Mark 7:10

• For Moses

• said, ‘
• said,
• said:
• said ‘
• said, “

• Honor
• Respect
• Honour

• your father and your

• mother,’ and, ‘
• mother, and,
• mother’; and, ‘

• Anyone who
• He who

• curses father or

• mother,
• mother

• let him be put to

• death’.
• death’;
• death.
• death.”
• death!’
• death.’ ;
• death,’
• death.’

Mark 7:11

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:12

• then you
• You no
• you no
• ‘he
• he
• then you no

• longer
• no

• longer let him
• longer permit him to
• permit him to

• do anything for

• his
• their

• father or
• father and

• mother.’
• mother!
• mother,
• mother.
• his mother;
• his mother.
• his mother,

Mark 7:13

• making void the word of God by your

• tradition that
• tradition, which
• tradition which

• you have

• handed down, and
• handed down. And
• handed down; and
• handed on. And

• you do

• many
• many other

• things like this.’
• things like this.”
• things like that.”
• things.”

Mark 7:14

• Then Jesus
• He
• Jesus
• Then he
• And he
• Again Jesus

• called the

• crowd
• people to him

• again and said to them, “

• Listen to
• Hear

• Me, all of
• me, all of
• me all of
• Me,
• me,

• you, and
• everyone, and

• understand;
• understand.
• understand:
• understand this:
• understand this.
• understand what I am saying.
• try to understand!
• try to understand.

Mark 7:15

• there is
• There is

• nothing from without the man, that going into him

• can ‘
• can

• defile
• defile’

• him; but the
• him, but the

• things that
• things which

• come out of a
• proceed out of the

• man
• person

• are the things that
• are those that
• are what

• defile a
• defile
• defile the

• man.
• man.’
• him.
• him.”
• them.
• them.”

Mark 7:16

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:17

• When he
• When He
• And when he
• When they

• went into the

• house
• house,

• away from the

• crowd, his
• crowd his
• crowd, His
• multitude, his

• disciples

• asked
• questioned

• Him about the
• him about the
• him about this

• parable.
• story.
• saying.

Mark 7:18

• He
• And he
• And He
• So he
• So He
• Jesus

• said to

• them,
• them, “

• Then are you also without understanding? Do you not

• understand that whatever
• perceive that whatever
• know that whatever
• see that whatever

• goes into a
• enters a
• goes into
• goes into the
• enters

• man from
• man from the
• person from
• person from the
• someone from

• outside cannot

• defile
• defile’

• him,
• him?
• them?
• them,
• them
• you?

Mark 7:19

• because it
• It
• For it
• Food

• does

• not
• n’t

• go into
• enter
• enter into

• his
• your
• their

• heart but into
• heart, but into
• heart, but
• heart but

• his

• stomach and
• stomach, and

• is
• goes out into the

• latrine,
• latrine”—

• thus purifying all foods?”

Mark 7:20

• And he said, “What comes out of a
• And He said, “What comes out of a

• person that
• person, that
• man, that
• person
• man

• is what defiles
• defiles
• makes
• defiles a

• him.
• man.
• you.

Mark 7:21

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:22

• adultery,
• greed,
• adulteries,
• covetings,

• wickedness,
• greed, evil actions,
• greed, malice,
• greed, wickedness,

• deceit,

• indecency,
• licentiousness,
• sensuality,
• debauchery,

• envy,
• jealousy,

• slander,
• blasphemy,
• insults,

• pride, and
• pride and
• pride,
• arrogance, and
• arrogance and

• foolishness:
• foolishness.
• foolishness;
• folly;
• folly.
• folly—
• foolish living.

Mark 7:23

• all these evil things
• All these evil things
• All these evils

• come from within, and
• come from within and
• come from
• come from the
• proceed from within and
• proceed from within, and

• defile a
• defile the
• make a
• make
• they defile a

• person.
• person.”
• man.”
• man.
• man.’
• person unclean.’
• person unclean.”

Mark 7:24

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:25

• [Translation pending]

Mark 7:26

• The woman
• the woman
• Now the woman
• She

• was a
• was
• was not a

• Greek, a
• Greek,
• Jew.
• Greek, born in

• Syrophoenician by
• Syro-Phoenician by
• Syrian
• Syrophoenician
• born in

• birth. And
• birth, and
• birth.
• Phoenicia.
• origin.
• Phoenicia, in Syria.
• Phoenicia in Syria.
• race. And
• race; and

• she
• She

• begged
• asked
• kept asking

• Him to
• him to
• Jesus to

• drive the
• cast the
• force the

• demon out of
• demon from

• her daughter.

Mark 7:27

• He
• Jesus
• And he
• And He
• But Jesus

• said to

• her, “
• her, ‘

• Let the children be

• satisfied
• fed
• filled

• first. For
• first, for
• first.
• first;
• first, because

• It
• it

• is

• not
• n’t

• right to
• fair to
• good to

• take the children’s

• bread and
• food, and
• food and

• throw
• toss

• it to the
• it to

• dogs.”
• dogs.’
• dogs.
• dogs!”

Mark 7:28

• But she
• She

• answered, “
• answered
• answered and said to
• answered, “Yes,

• Lord, but
• him, “Yes, Lord;
• him, “Yes, Lord.
• Him, Yes, Lord,
• Him, “Yes, Lord,
• him, “Lord,
• Him, “Yes, Lord, but
• Lord,

• even the
• Yet even the
• yet even the

• dogs under the table

• eat the
• feed on the

• children’s

• crumbs.
• crumbs.”
• scraps.’
• scraps.”

Mark 7:29

• Then he
• Then He
• And he
• And He
• He

• said to
• told

• her, “For
• her, ‘For
• her, “Because of this
• her, For this
• her, “For this

• saying,
• saying
• reply,
• statement
• statement,
• answer
• answer,
• saying this
• saying this,

• you may go; the
• you may go. The
• go
• go! The
• go; the

• demon
• your way; the demon
• your way. The demon

• has
• is

• left
• gone out of

• your

• daughter!”
• daughter.”
• daughter.
• daughter.’

Mark 7:30

• And when she
• So she
• She
• And she
• The woman
• When the woman
• When she

• went
• returned to
• went to

• home and
• home, and
• her house, she
• home, she
• her home, she
• home,

• found the
• found

• child
• her child
• her daughter

• lying on the
• lying in

• bed. And the
• bed and the
• bed, and the
• bed. The
• bed, the
• bed; the

• demon

• gone.
• was gone.
• gone out.

Mark 7:31

• Then
• Again

• Jesus
• He
• he

• left the
• went away from the

• region of
• area around
• neighborhood of
• district of

• Tyre, and
• Tyre and
• Tyre.
• Tyre,

• went through
• came through
• Jesus went through
• He went through

• Sidon, to the
• Sidon to the
• Sidon to
• Sidon towards the

• Sea of
• Lake

• Galilee in the
• Galilee, in the
• Galilee and into the
• Galilee, and into the
• Galilee, through the
• Galilee through the
• Galilee, within the

• region of the
• region of the Ten
• region of
• territory of the Ten

• Decapolis.
• Towns.
• Cities.

Mark 7:32

• They
• And they
• Some people
• There some people

• brought to
• brought

• Him a
• him a
• Him
• him

• man who
• one who

• was

• deaf and
• deaf, and

• had an impediment in
• could hardly
• had a speech

• speak, and
• his speech; and
• his speech, and

• they

• begged
• asked

• Jesus to
• Him to
• him to

• lay
• place
• put

• his
• His

• hand on
• hand upon
• hand on the man to
• hands on
• hand on the

• him.
• man.
• heal him.

Mark 7:33

• Jesus took
• He took
• And He took
• And he took
• Jesus led the

• him
• man

• aside from the
• away from the

• crowd
• crowd to
• crowd, to
• multitude
• crowd, by

• privately,
• himself,
• himself.
• be alone with him.

• He
• he
• Jesus

• put

• his
• His

• fingers into the
• fingers in the
• fingers into

• man’s
• his

• ears.
• ears, and
• ears and

• Then he
• He

• spat and
• spat, and
• spit and

• touched
• touched the

• his
• man’s

• tongue;
• tongue.
• tongue,

Mark 7:34

• Then looking up to
• Then, looking up to
• And looking up to
• and looking up to
• Looking up to

• heaven,
• heaven

• He
• he
• Jesus

• sighed and
• sighed, and
• sighed deeply and

• said to him, “
• said to him, ‘
• said,
• said, “
• said to the man: “
• said to the man, “

• Ephphatha!” which
• Ephphatha, which
• Ephphatha’, which
• Ephphatha,” which
• Ephphatha” (that
• Ephphatha!” (that
• Ephphatha!” that
• Ephphatha,’ that
• Ephphatha!” That
• Ephphatha,” that
• Ephphatha!” (This

• is, ‘
• is, “
• means ‘
• means “
• means, “
• means,

• Be

• opened!
• opened.’
• opened!”
• opened.”
• opened!”)
• opened!”) .
• opened”).
• opened.”)

Mark 7:35

• And his
• And immediately the man’s
• The man’s

• ears were

• opened,
• opened.

• his
• His

• tongue was

• removed, and
• removed and
• loosened and
• loosened, and
• released, and
• loosed, and

• he

• spoke
• began to speak

• plainly!
• plainly.
• clearly.
• normally.

Mark 7:36

• Jesus
• And he
• And He
• Then Jesus
• Then He
• He
• And Jesus

• ordered
• told the
• ordered the
• gave

• people
• them to
• them

• tell no
• not to tell
• tell

• anyone; but the
• anyone, but the
• anyone. But the
• one. But the
• one; but the
• one, but the

• more

• He
• he

• ordered
• told
• did
• commanded

• them, the
• them not to, the
• so, the

• more they

• spread the
• kept talking about
• proclaimed

• it.
• it,
• news.

Mark 7:37

• They
• And they

• were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has

• done
• done.
• done all

• everything
• things

• well.
• well!
• well;

• He
• he

• even makes the
• makes the
• makes even the

• deaf
• deaf to

• hear and the
• hear, and the
• hear and gives

• mute
• mute to
• dumb

• speak.’
• speak!”
• speak.”
• talk.”