Mark 7

1Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.Cross-references: Matt 15:1 · Mark 3:22 · Luke 5:17 · Luke 11:53

2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.Cross-references: Dan 6:4 · Matt 7:3 · Matt 23:23 · Acts 10:14 · Acts 10:28 · Acts 11:8 · +1 more

3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.Cross-references: Matt 15:2 · Mark 7:5 · Mark 7:7 · Mark 7:13 · Gal 1:14 · Col 2:8 · +2 more

4They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)Cross-references: Job 9:30 · Ps 26:6 · Isa 1:16 · Jer 4:14 · Matt 23:25 · Matt 27:24 · +6 more

5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”Cross-references: Matt 15:2 · Mark 2:16 · Mark 7:2 · Acts 21:21 · Acts 21:24 · Rom 4:12 · +3 more

6He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.Cross-references: Isa 29:13 · Ezek 33:31 · Hos 8:2 · Matt 15:7 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 11:39 · +8 more

7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’Cross-references: Deut 12:32 · 1Sam 12:21 · Isa 29:13 · Mal 3:14 · Matt 6:7 · Matt 15:9 · +9 more

8“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”Cross-references: Isa 1:12 · Mark 7:3

9He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:10 · Ps 119:126 · Isa 24:5 · Isa 29:13 · Jer 44:16 · Dan 7:25 · +7 more

10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Ex 21:17 · Lev 20:9 · Deut 5:16 · Deut 27:16 · Prov 20:20 · +3 more

11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’” that is to say, given to God,Cross-references: Matt 15:5 · Matt 23:18 · 1Tim 5:4

12“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

13making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”Cross-references: Isa 8:20 · Jer 8:8 · Ezek 18:14 · Hos 8:12 · Matt 5:17 · Matt 15:6 · +4 more

14He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 22:28 · Ps 49:1 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 8:5 · Isa 6:9 · +5 more

15There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.Cross-references: Lev 11:42 · Prov 4:23 · Matt 12:34 · Matt 15:16 · Mark 7:18 · Acts 10:14 · +9 more

16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.Cross-references: Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:36 · Matt 15:15 · Mark 4:10 · Mark 4:34 · Mark 9:28

18He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,Cross-references: Isa 28:9 · Jer 5:4 · Matt 15:16 · Matt 16:11 · Mark 4:13 · Luke 24:25 · +3 more

19because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”Cross-references: Matt 15:17 · Luke 11:41 · Acts 10:15 · Acts 11:9 · Rom 14:1 · 1Cor 6:13 · +2 more

20He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.Cross-references: Ps 41:6 · Mic 2:1 · Matt 12:34 · Mark 7:15 · Heb 7:6 · James 1:14 · +2 more

21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · Ps 14:1 · +25 more

22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.Cross-references: Deut 15:9 · Deut 28:54 · Deut 28:56 · 1Sam 18:8 · 2Chr 32:25 · 2Chr 32:31 · +14 more

23All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”Cross-references: Mark 7:15 · Mark 7:18 · 1Cor 3:17 · Titus 1:15 · Jude 1:8

24From there he arose and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 10:19 · Gen 49:13 · Josh 19:28 · Isa 23:1 · Isa 23:12 · +10 more

25For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.Cross-references: Matt 15:22 · Mark 1:40 · Mark 5:22 · Mark 5:33 · Mark 9:17 · Luke 17:16 · +2 more

26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.Cross-references: Isa 49:12 · Matt 15:22 · Gal 3:28 · Col 3:11

27But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”Cross-references: Matt 7:6 · Matt 10:5 · Matt 15:23 · Acts 22:21 · Rom 15:8 · Eph 2:12

28But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”Cross-references: Ps 145:16 · Isa 45:22 · Isa 49:6 · Matt 5:45 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 15:30 · +6 more

29He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”Cross-references: Isa 57:15 · Isa 66:2 · Matt 5:3 · Matt 8:9 · 1John 3:8

30She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.Cross-references: John 4:50 · 1John 3:8

31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee through the middle of the region of Decapolis.Cross-references: Matt 4:18 · Matt 4:25 · Matt 11:21 · Matt 15:29 · Mark 5:20 · Mark 7:24

32They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.Cross-references: Matt 9:32 · Mark 5:23 · Luke 11:14

33He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:19 · 2Ki 4:4 · 2Ki 4:33 · Mark 5:40 · Mark 8:23 · John 9:6

34Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”Cross-references: Isa 53:3 · Ezek 21:6 · Mark 1:41 · Mark 5:41 · Mark 6:41 · Mark 8:12 · +13 more

35Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.Cross-references: Ps 33:9 · Isa 32:3 · Isa 35:5 · Matt 11:5 · Mark 2:12

36He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Mark 1:44 · Mark 3:12 · Mark 5:43 · Mark 8:26

37They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Ex 4:10 · Ps 139:14 · Mark 1:27 · Mark 2:12 · Mark 4:41 · +6 more