马可福音 7
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
不可因傳統廢棄 神的誡命(A)
7 有法利賽人和幾個經學家從耶路撒冷來，聚集到耶穌那裡。 2 他們看見他的門徒有人用不潔的手，就是沒有洗過的手吃飯， 3 （原來法利賽人和所有的猶太人都拘守古人的傳統，如果不認真洗手，就不吃東西； 4 從街市回來，若不洗手，就不吃東西，還有許多別的傳統，他們都沿襲拘守，例如洗杯、洗罐、洗銅器等等。） 5 法利賽人和經學家問耶穌：“你的門徒為甚麼不遵行古人的傳統，用不潔的手吃飯呢？” 6 耶穌對他們說：“以賽亞指著你們這班偽君子所說的預言是對的，經上記著：
‘這人民用嘴唇尊敬我，
心卻遠離我；
7 他們把人的規條當作道理去教導人，
所以拜我也是徒然。’
8 你們拘守著人的傳統，卻離棄了 神的誡命。” 9 耶穌又對他們說：“你們為了堅守自己的傳統，而巧妙地把 神的誡命拒絕了。 10 因為摩西說：‘當孝敬父母’，又說：‘咒罵父母的，必被處死。’ 11 你們倒說：‘人對父母說，我應該給你的供奉，已經作了各耳板’（各耳板意思是奉給 神的供物）， 12 你們就不讓那人再為父母作甚麼。 13 這樣，你們藉著所領受的傳統，把 神的話廢棄了。你們還作了許多這一類的事。”
14 於是耶穌又把群眾叫過來，對他們說：“你們大家都要聽我說，也要明白： 15 從外面進去的，不能使人污穢，從裡面出來的，才能使人污穢。”（有些抄本有第16節：“有耳可聽的，就應該聽。”） 17 耶穌離開群眾，進了屋子，門徒就來問他這比喻的意思。 18 他對他們說：“連你們也是這樣不明白嗎？難道不知道從外面進去的，不能使人污穢嗎？ 19 因為不是進到他的心，而是進到他的肚腹，再排泄到外面（“外面”或譯：“廁所”）去。”（他這樣說是表示各樣食物都是潔淨的。） 20 接著他又說：“從人裡面出來的，才會使人污穢。 21 因為從裡面，就是從人的心裡，發出惡念、淫亂、偷盜、兇殺、 22 姦淫、貪心、邪惡、詭詐、放蕩、嫉妒、毀謗、驕傲、愚妄； 23 這一切惡事，是從人裡面出來的，都能使人污穢。”
敘利亞婦人的信心(B)
24 耶穌從那裡動身到推羅（有些抄本在此有“和西頓”）境內去。進了一所房子，本來不想讓人知道，卻隱藏不住。 25 有一個女人，她的小女兒被污靈附著，她聽見了耶穌的事，就來俯伏在他腳前。 26 這女人是外族人，屬於敘利亞的腓尼基族。她求耶穌把鬼從她女兒身上趕出去。 27 耶穌對她說：“應該先讓兒女吃飽。拿兒女的餅去丟給小狗吃是不好的。” 28 那女人回答他：“主啊，是的，不過小狗在桌子底下，也可以吃孩子們掉下來的碎渣。” 29 耶穌對她說：“就憑這句話，你回去吧，鬼已經從你女兒身上出去了。” 30 她回到家裡，看見小孩子躺在床上，鬼已經出去了。
治好又聾又啞的人(C)
31 耶穌從推羅境內出去，經過西頓，回到低加波利地區的加利利海。 32 有人帶著一個又聾又啞的人到他那裡，求耶穌按手在他身上。 33 耶穌把他從人群中帶到一邊，用指頭探他的耳朵，吐唾沫抹他的舌頭， 34 然後望著天，長長地歎了一口氣，對他說：“以法大！”意思是“開了吧”。 35 那人的耳朵就開了，舌頭也鬆了，說話也準確了。 36 耶穌囑咐他們不要告訴人。但他越是囑咐，他們卻越發傳揚。 37 眾人非常驚訝說：“他所作的一切事都好極了；他竟然使聾子聽見，又使啞巴說話。”
Mark 7
EasyEnglish Bible
Jesus speaks to Pharisees and to some teachers of God's Law
7 A group of Pharisees and some teachers of God's Law came from Jerusalem to talk with Jesus. 2 They had been watching Jesus' disciples. Some of the disciples did not wash their hands before they ate a meal. That is to say, they did not wash them in the right way. 3 (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat food until they have washed their hands carefully. They do this because of what their leaders taught them. 4 When they come from the market place, they always wash themselves carefully. Unless they do this, they do not eat anything. Their leaders also gave them rules about how they should wash cups, pots and metal bowls.)
5 The Pharisees and the teachers of God's Law said to Jesus, ‘Your disciples do not obey the things that our leaders taught many years ago. Your disciples have not washed their hands in the right way. They are eating their food with unclean hands. That is not right.’
6 Jesus said to them, ‘You are hypocrites! What God's prophet Isaiah wrote about you long ago is true:
God says, “These people say good things about me,
but they do not really want to obey me.
7 They say that I am great.
But what they say has no purpose.
They teach their own rules, which I did not give to them.” ’[a]
8 Jesus then said, ‘You have stopped obeying God. Instead you obey the ideas that men teach.’
9 He said to them, ‘You refuse to obey God's rules, because then you can keep your own ideas! 10 For example, Moses wrote, “You must love your father and your mother. You must obey them.” He also said, “You must kill anyone who curses his father or his mother.”[b] 11 But you teach that a person may say to his father or to his mother, “I would have given gifts to help you. But I cannot do that, because I have given them to God instead.” 12 If he says that, you let him do nothing to help his father or his mother. 13 This shows that you have not obeyed what God says is right. Instead, you have obeyed the ideas that you received from your leaders many years ago. And you do many other things like that.’
14 Jesus asked the crowd of people to come to him again. He said to them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, so that you can understand these things. 15 People do not become unclean because of things that go into their bodies from outside. They become unclean because of the things that come out from their minds. 16 [You have heard my words. So do what I say.’][c]
Jesus explains to his disciples what he had taught
17 Jesus left the crowd of people and he went into a house. Then his disciples asked him to explain what he had taught.
18 Jesus said, ‘I am surprised that you too do not understand what I am saying. You should understand that food will not make people unclean. Food goes into people's bodies from outside. 19 But food does not go into people's minds. It goes into their stomachs and then it passes out of their bodies.’
When Jesus said this, he was teaching that all foods are clean.
20 Jesus then said, ‘People become unclean because of what comes out from them, not because of what goes in. 21 Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result they do wrong things. They have sex in wrong ways. They rob people. They murder people. 22 They have sex with another man's wife. They are greedy. They are cruel to other people. They deceive people. They live like wild animals. They are jealous of other people. They say bad things about other people. They are proud and foolish.
23 All these wrong things begin inside people's minds and then they come out. That is what makes them unclean.’
Jesus travels out of Israel
24 Jesus left that place. He went away to the region around Tyre. He went into a house. He did not want anyone to know that he was there. But it was not possible to keep this a secret. 25 Immediately, a certain woman heard that he was there. This woman had a daughter who had a bad spirit in her. The woman came to Jesus and she went down on her knees by his feet. 26 She was not a Jew. Her family was from Phoenicia in the country of Syria. She asked Jesus to make the bad spirit go out of her daughter.
27 Jesus said to the woman, ‘First, the children must eat all that they want. It is not right to take food from the children and then throw it to the dogs.’
28 The woman replied, ‘Yes, sir. That is true. But small pieces of food drop while the children eat. And the dogs under the table eat those pieces.’
29 ‘That is a good answer,’ Jesus replied. ‘Now the bad spirit has left your daughter. You may go.’
30 The woman went to her home. She saw her child, who was lying on the bed. The bad spirit had left the girl.
Jesus makes a man well again
31 Then Jesus went away from Tyre. He travelled through the city of Sidon. Then he went towards Lake Galilee. He was in the region called ‘The ten cities’.
32 Some people brought a man to Jesus. This man could not hear anything and he could not speak clearly. The people asked Jesus to put his hand on the man.
33 Jesus led the man away from the crowd. He put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spat on his hands and touched the man's tongue. 34 Jesus looked up towards heaven. He cried with a low, sad sound. Then he said to the man, ‘Ephphatha!’ That means, ‘Become open!’ 35 When Jesus said this, the man started to hear. Also, his tongue was able to move properly so that he could speak clearly.
36 Jesus told the people that they must not tell anyone about this. But every time Jesus asked them not to say anything, they spoke even more about it. 37 The people were very surprised about everything that Jesus did. They said, ‘Jesus has done everything well. If people cannot hear, Jesus makes them able to hear. If people cannot speak, Jesus makes them able to speak.’
Footnotes
- 7:7 See Isaiah 29:13
- 7:10 See Exodus 21:17
- 7:16 This verse is not in some old copies of the Bible.
Mark 7
King James Version
7 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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, brasen vessels, and of tables.
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?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
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.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
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.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
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.
25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
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.
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.
33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
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;
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.
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