Chapter 19
The Tradition of the Elders
Verse 1: Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes who came from Jerusalem and started to gather around Jesus, | Mark 7:1
2 they had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with defiled hands, that is, which were unwashed. | Mark 7:2
3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, thus holding to the tradition of the elders, | Mark 7:3
4 and on returning from the marketplace, they do not eat anything unless they are washed, and there are also many other things that they do: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles, tables and beds.) | Mark 7:4
5 So the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not live in accordance to the traditions of the elders but eat their bread with defiled hands?” | Mark 7:5
6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you, for it is written: ‘Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? | Mark 7:6, Isaiah 43:18-19
7 they worship your father in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’ | Mark 7:7
8 A grapevine has been planted outside of my Father. Indeed because it is malnourished, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed.” | Gospel of Thomas 40
9 Then he said to them, “If you do not fast as regards to the world, you will not find my father's kingdom. You have a fine way of observing the Sabbath while rejecting my Father! | Gospel of Thomas 27
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whosoever insults or curses his mother father or mother must be put to death.’ | Mark 7:10
11 But I say to you that whoever does not hate his father and his mother as I do cannot become my disciple. And whoever does not love his father and his mother as I do cannot become my disciple. For my mother gave me death, but my true mother gave me life.” | Gospel of Thomas 101
12 Then a Pharisee said, “Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.” | Proverbs 23:22
13 Jesus replied, “He who knows the Father and the mother will be called the son of a harlot.” | Gospel of Thomas 105
14 Then he called the people to him again and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand: | Mark 7:14
15 there is nothing outside a person that by going into them can defile them, but the things that come from a person are what defile them. | Mark 7:15
16 If you have ears to hear, then hear” | Mark 7:16
17 Now when Jesus had departed from the crowd and entered the house and gone indoors, | Mark 7:17
18 Then the disciples came to him and said, “Are you aware that the Pharisees were offended when they heard what you said?” | Matthew 15:12
19 Jesus answered, “Every plant that has not been planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted. | Matthew 15:13
20 Let them be; for they are the blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person leads another, both shall fall into a pit.” | Matthew 15:14
21 But Peter asked him, “Master, explain the parable to us.” | Matthew 15:15
22 Jesus answered them, “Do you also not understand? How can you not see that whatever goes into a person from the outside cannot defile, | Mark 7:18
23 because it does not enter the heart but instead the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he made all foods clean.) | Mark 7:19
24 And he said, “It is whatever that comes forth from a person that defiles them. | Mark 7:20
25 For it is from within, from the a person's heart, that evil thoughts and ideas begin: sexual immorality, theft, murder, | Mark 7:21
26 adultery, deceit, slander, greed, envy, pride, folly, debauchery, wickedness. | Mark 7:22
27 All these evil and wicked things come from within a person, and they defile them.” | Mark 7:23
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
28 After Jesus left there, he set out and went to the region of Tyre. There he entered a house discreetly and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice, | Mark 7:24
29 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, as soon as she heard about Jesus, she came immediately and fell at his feet. | Mark 7:25
30 Now the woman was a gentile, a Syrophoenician. She pleaded with him to drive the demon out of her daughter. | Mark 7:26
31 Then he said to her, “The Son of Man is within everyone, therefore no one can be excluded from healing or compassion,
32 you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter”. | Mark 7:29
33 And she went home and found her child lying on the bed and the demon was gone. | Mark 7:30
Jesus Cures a Deaf Man
34 And again, Jesus departed from the region of Tyre and he came through Sidon toward the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis. | Mark 7:31
35 some people brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they begged Jesus to lay his hands on him. | Mark 7:32
36 So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd by himself and laid his hands upon him. | Mark 7:33
37 Then, looking up to heaven above, he sighed and said, “Ephphatha,” which means, “Be opened.” | Mark 7:34
38 And the man's ears were opened and his tongue was released then he began to speak clearly. | Mark 7:35
39 Then Jesus insisted that they to tell no one, but the more he insisted, the more widely they proclaimed it. | Mark 7:36
40 The people were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all these things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” | Mark 7:37