Mark 7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
7 Now there gathered together to [Jesus] the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
2 For they had seen that some of His disciples ate with [a]common hands, that is, unwashed [with hands defiled and unhallowed, because they had not given them a [b]ceremonial washing]—
3 For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat unless [merely for ceremonial reasons] they wash their hands [diligently [c]up to the elbow] with clenched fist, adhering [carefully and faithfully] to the tradition of [practices and customs handed down to them by] their forefathers [to be observed].
4 And [when they come] from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions [oral, man-made laws handed down to them, which they observe faithfully and diligently, such as], the washing of cups and wooden pitchers and widemouthed jugs and utensils of copper and [d]beds—
5 And the Pharisees and scribes kept asking [Jesus], Why do Your disciples not order their way of living according to the tradition handed down by the forefathers [to be observed], but eat with hands unwashed and ceremonially not purified?
6 But He said to them, Excellently and truly [[e]so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These people [constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far distant from Me.
7 In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do they worship Me, ordering and teaching [to be obeyed] as doctrines the commandments and precepts of men.(A)
8 You disregard and give up and ask to depart from you the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men [keeping it carefully and faithfully].
9 And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)!
10 For Moses said, Honor (revere with tenderness of feeling and deference) your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely die.(B)
11 But [as for you] you say, A man is exempt if he tells [his] father or [his] mother, What you would otherwise have gained from me [everything I have that would have been of use to you] is Corban, that is, is a gift [already given as an offering to God],
12 Then you no longer are permitting him to do anything for [his] father or mother [but are letting him off from helping them].
13 Thus you are nullifying and making void and of no effect [the authority of] the Word of God through your tradition, which you [in turn] hand on. And many things of this kind you are doing.
14 And He called the people to [Him] again and said to them, Listen to Me, all of you, and understand [what I say].
15 There is not [even] one thing outside a man which by going into him can pollute and defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean.
16 [f]If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening [and let him [g]perceive and comprehend by hearing].
17 And when He had left the crowd and had gone into the house, His disciples began asking Him about the parable.
18 And He said to them, Then are you also unintelligent and dull and without understanding? Do you not discern and see that whatever goes into a man from the outside cannot make him unhallowed or unclean,
19 Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, [h]abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law].
20 And He said, What comes out of a man is what makes a man unclean and renders [him] unhallowed.
21 For from within, [that is] out of the hearts of men, come base and wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,
22 Coveting (a greedy desire to have more wealth), dangerous and destructive wickedness, deceit; [i]unrestrained (indecent) conduct; an evil eye (envy), slander (evil speaking, malicious misrepresentation, abusiveness), pride ([j]the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man), foolishness (folly, lack of sense, recklessness, thoughtlessness).
23 All these evil [purposes and desires] come from within, and they make the man unclean and render him unhallowed.
24 And Jesus arose and went away from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He went into a house and did not want anyone to know [that He was there]; but it was not possible for Him to be hidden [from public notice].
25 Instead, at once, a woman whose little daughter had (was under the control of) an unclean spirit heard about Him and came and flung herself down at His feet.
26 Now the woman was a Greek (Gentile), a Syrophoenician by nationality. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her little daughter.
27 And He said to her, First let the children be fed, for it is not becoming or proper or right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the [little house] dogs.
28 But she answered Him, Yes, Lord, yet even the small pups under the table eat the little children’s scraps of food.
29 And He said to her, Because of this saying, you may go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter [permanently].
30 And she went home and found the child thrown on the couch, and the demon departed.
31 Soon after this, Jesus, coming back from the region of Tyre, passed through Sidon on to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of Decapolis [the ten cities].
32 And they brought to Him a man who was deaf and had difficulty in speaking, and they begged Jesus to place His hand upon him.
33 And taking him aside from the crowd [privately], He thrust His fingers into the man’s ears and spat and touched his tongue;
34 And looking up to heaven, He sighed as He said, Ephphatha, which means, Be opened!
35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak distinctly and as he should.
36 And Jesus [[k]in His own interest] admonished and ordered them sternly and expressly to tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
37 And they were overwhelmingly astonished, saying, He has done everything excellently (commendably and nobly)! He even makes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak!
Footnotes
- Mark 7:2 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.
- Mark 7:2 Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation.
- Mark 7:3 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- Mark 7:4 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary and Robert Young, Analytical Concordance agree with most lexicons in reading “beds” here. Some manuscripts end verse 4 after “utensils of copper.”
- Mark 7:6 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Mark 7:16 Many manuscripts do not contain this verse.
- Mark 7:16 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- Mark 7:19 W. Robertson Nicoll, ed., The Expositor’s Greek New Testament.
- Mark 7:22 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
- Mark 7:22 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- Mark 7:36 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies: The Greek uses the middle voice here to show that the charge is given with the speaker’s personal interest in view.
Mak 7
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Lalwa Bondye fas ak tradisyon yo
(Mat 15:1-20)
7 Farizyen yo ak kèk direktè Lalwa ki te vin soti Jerizalèm te antoure Jezi. 2 Yo wè kèk nan disip Jezi yo ki t ap manje san yo pa lave men yo, sa vle di men yo pa t lave nan fason Jwif yo te konn abitye fè sa. 3 Paske Farizyen yo ak tout lòt Jwif yo pa janm manje san yo pa lave men yo. Yo fè sa pou yo ka swiv koutim granmoun lontan yo. 4 Lè yo sot achte yon bagay nan mache, yo pa manje l si yo pa lave l. Epi gen anpil lòt tradisyon yo obsève, tankou lave gode, po ak veso an kuiv.[a]
5 Farizyen yo ak direktè Lalwa yo mande Jezi: Poukisa disip ou yo pa respekte tradisyon granmoun lontan yo, okontrè y ap manje ak men yo san lave?”
6 Jezi di yo: “Bann ipokrit! Li parèt klè pou tout moun Ezayi te gen rezon lè l di:
Moun sa yo ap fè lwanj pou mwen ak bouch yo,
men kè yo lwen mwen.
7 Adorasyon yo ban mwen pa gen okenn valè,
paske se kòmandman pa yo y ap anseye.(A)
8 Nou mete kòmandman Bondye a kote epi n ap kenbe tradisyon lòm.”
9 Epi Jezi di yo: “E nou menm, poukisa nou dezobeyi pawòl Bondye pou nou swiv koutim ki fè nou plezi yo? 10 Moyiz di: Onore papa nou ak manman nou.(B) Epi Nenpòt moun ki derespekte manman l ak papa l merite lanmò.(C) 11 Men nou menm nou di: lè yon moun di papa l oswa manman l: mwen pa ka ede w paske mwen konsakre tout afè m bay Bondye. 12 Konsa nou di moun yo pa bezwen fè anyen pou papa yo ak manman yo, si yo bay lajan nan tanp la. 13 Konsa tradisyon nou yo vin pi enpòtan pase pawòl Bondye. Nou fè anpil lòt bagay kon sa ankò.”
14 Jezi pale ak foul moun yo ankò epi li di yo: “Se pou nou tout louvri zòrèy nou byen pou n ka tande epi konprann sa m pral di nou an. 15 Se pa sa k deyò ki antre nan you moun ki fè moun nan pa pwòp. Men se sa ki anndan yo k ap sòti yo.” 16 [b]
17 Apre sa, Jezi kite foul la ale epi l al lakay li. Disip yo poze l kesyon sou sans ki kache dèryè sa l te di a. 18 Li di yo: “Menm nou menm tou, nou pa konprann? Nou pa konprann tout sa ki antre nan you moun ki kapab sal moun sa a? 19 Paske se pa nan kè l li antre, men se nan vant li l ale. Apresa l al jete l nan latrin.” (Lè Jezi t ap di sa, li te vle di pa t gen yon manje k ap fè nou pa akseptab devan Bondye).
20 Epi Jezi di: “Se sa k sot nan bouch se nan kè li sòti. Se sa ki sal yon moun. 21 Paske se nan kè move panse soti, epi ki bay tout lòt bagay yo, tankou move zak, vòlè, touye moun, 22 adiltè, avaris, mechanste, bay manti, fònikasyon, gwo je, tripotay, awogans ak yon lavi tankou moun fou. 23 Tout move bagay sa yo se anndan yo sòti, epi se yo ki sal moun.”
Jezi ede yon madanm ki pa t Jwif
(Mat 15:21-28)
24 Jezi kite zòn nan epi li ale nan yon lòt zòn yo rele Ti. Li antre nan yon kay, li pa t vle moun nan zòn sa a konnen li te la. Men li pa t ka ret kache. 25 Se konsa, yon madanm ki te gen pitit fi l ki te gen yon move lespri sou li te tande Jezi nan zòn nan, l al kot Jezi epi li tonbe nan pye Jezi. 26 Madanm nan pa t Jwif, li se moun Fenisi nan peyi Siri. Li mande Jezi chase demon an sou piti l la.
27 Jezi di madanm nan: “Avan tout bagay, fòk ti moun yo manje anvan, li pa bon pou pran manje ti moun yo voye bay chyen.”
28 Men fi a reponn, li di: “Senyè, men chyen yo ki anba tab la konn manje ti moso manje ti moun yo kite tonbe atè.”
29 Alò Jezi di li: “Se yon bon repons. Ou mèt ale, demon an sòti sou pitit fi w la.”
30 Lè madanm nan retounen lakay li, li jwenn pitit la kouche. Demon an te soti.
Jezi geri you moun soud
31 Jezi kite zòn Ti epi li pase Sidon. Sou wout pou l ale Galile, li pase sou teritwa dis vil yo. 32 Pandan li la, yo mennen ba li yon moun ki te soud epi ki pa t ka pale byen. Yo mande Jezi pou li poze men l sou nonm lan.
33 Jezi mennen nonm nan akote, lwen foul la. Li mete dwèt li nan zòrèy nonm lan. Apre sa li krache sou dwat li epi li manyen lang nonm nan. 34 Jezi leve je l anlè nan syèl, li fè yon gwo soupi epi li di: “Efata!” (Sa ki vle di: ouvri). 35 Kou Jezi fin di sa, zòrèy nonm lan ouvri, lang li vin lejè epi li kòmanse pale byen klè, san pwoblèm.
36 Jezi di pèp la pou yo pa di moun sa k te rive a. Men plis li di yo pa di anyen, se pi plis moun yo pale sa ki te rive a. 37 Tout moun te sezi, yo t ap di: “Gade kijan li fè tout bagay byen. Ata moun ki soud li fè yo tande! E menm bèbè yo li fè yo pale.”
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