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Mark 7

Mark 7:2

AND WHEN THEY SAW SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES EAT BREAD WITH DEFILED, THAT IS TO SAY, WITH UNWASHEN, HANDS, THEY FOUND FAULT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:3

FOR THE PHARISEES AND ALL THE JEWS, EXCEPT THEY WASH THEIR HANDS OFT, EAT NOT, HOLDING THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:4

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, BRAZEN VESSELS, AND OF TABLES.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:5

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? An instance of typical pharisaic pedantry, of deliberate, unwarranted faultfinding. Jesus had returned to Capernaum for a few days after the exciting and... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:6

HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, WELL HATH ESAIAS PROPHESIED OF YOU HYPOCRITES, AS IT IS WRITTEN, THIS PEOPLE HONORETH ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:8

FOR LAYING ASIDE THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, YE HOLD THE TRADITION OF MEN, AS THE WASHING OF POTS AND CUPS; AND MANY OTHER SUCH LIKE THINGS YE DO. In cases of weakness and lack of understanding the Lord was always willing to employ a great deal of patience, but in the case of the Pharisees, where utter... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:10

FOR MOSES SAID, HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER; AND, WHOSO CURSETH FATHER AND MOTHER, LET HIM DIE THE DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:11

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:13

MAKING THE WORD OF GOD OF NONE EFFECT THROUGH YOUR TRADITION WHICH YE HAVE DELIVERED; AND MANY SUCH LIKE THINGS DO YE. Having defended Himself successfully and silenced His detractors, the Lord now assumes the offensive. He employs pointed sarcasm: It is a fine way in which you frustrate the command... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:14

AND WHEN HE HAD CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO HIM, HE SAID UNTO THEM, HEARKEN UNTO ME, EVERY ONE OF YOU, AND UNDERSTAND:... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:15

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:16

IF ANY MAN HAVE EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. The question which had been broached by the Pharisees was by no means unimportant, if considered from the right angle and in the right connection. And Christ did not intend to be misunderstood by the people that had been interested witnesses of the encount... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:18

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:19

BECAUSE IT ENTERETH NOT INTO HIS HEART, BUT INTO THE BELLY, AND GOETH OUT INTO THE DRAUGHT, PURGING ALL MEATS?... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:23

ALL THESE EVIL THINGS COME FROM WITHIN, AND DEFILE THE MAN. The disciples had gotten into the habit of talking over the public teaching of the Lord, in order to find its true meaning, to get the full understanding. Here also they waited until Jesus came home with them, to the place where He, and, pe... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:24

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:25

FOR A CERTAIN WOMAN, WHOSE YOUNG DAUGHTER HAD AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, HEARD OF HIM, AND CAME AND FELL AT HIS FEET.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:26

THE WOMAN WAS A GREEK, A SYROPHOENICIAN BY NATION; AND SHE BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD CAST FORTH THE DEVIL OUT OF HER DAUGHTER. Since it was apparently impossible to find rest and leisure for connected teaching in the neighborhood of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus arose from there, from the city, Caperna... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:27

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:30

AND WHEN SHE WAS COME TO HER HOUSE, SHE FOUND THE DEVIL GONE OUT, AND HER DAUGHTER LAID UPON THE BED. Mark gives the story in a very brief form, merely indicating the battle which the woman fought in proving herself equal to the test of faith which Jesus laid upon her. Christ was not sent but to the... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:31

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:32

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. The story of this healing is one peculiar to the gospel of Mark. After His sojourn in Syrophenicia, in the region between Tyre and Sidon, Jesus did not take the direct route... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:33

AND HE TOOK HIM ASIDE FROM THE MULTITUDE, AND PUT HIS: FINGERS INTO HIS EARS, AND HE SPIT, AND TOUCHED HIS TONGUE;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:36

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 7:37

AND WERE BEYOND MEASURE ASTONISHED, SAYING, HE HATH DONE ALL THINGS WELL: HE MAKETH BOTH THE DEAF TO HEAR, AND THE DUMB TO SPEAK. Mark gives a very circumstantial account of the healing, relating every detail, to let the healing sympathy and power of the Lord stand out all the more beautifully. For... [ Continue Reading ]

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