Marco 7
La Nuova Diodati
7 Allora si riunirono intorno a lui i farisei e alcuni scribi venuti da Gerusalemme.
2 E, avendo visto che alcuni dei suoi discepoli mangiavano il cibo con le mani impure, cioè non lavate, li accusarono.
3 Infatti i farisei e tutti i Giudei non mangiano se non si sono prima lavate le mani con gran cura, attenendosi alla tradizione degli anziani;
4 e, quando tornano dalla piazza, non mangiano senza prima essersi purificati. Ci sono molte altre cose, che sono tenuti ad osservare per tradizione: lavatura di coppe, di brocche, di vasi di rame e di letti.
5 Poi i farisei e gli scribi gli domandarono: «Perché i tuoi discepoli non si comportano secondo la tradizione degli anziani, ma prendono il cibo senza lavarsi le mani?».
6 Ma egli, rispondendo, disse loro: «Ben profetizzò Isaia di voi, ipocriti, come sta scritto: "Questo popolo mi onora con le labbra, ma il loro cuore è lontano da me.
7 Ma invano mi rendono un culto, insegnando dottrine che sono precetti di uomini"
8 Trascurando infatti il comandamento di Dio, vi attenete alla tradizione degli uomini: lavatura di brocche e di coppe; e fate molte altre cose simili».
9 Disse loro ancora: «Voi siete abili nell'annullare il comandamento di Dio, per osservare la vostra tradizione.
10 Mosé infatti ha detto: "onora tuo padre e tua madre" e: "chi maledice il padre o la madre sia messo a morte".
11 Ma voi dite: "Se un uomo dice a suo padre o a sua madre: Tutto quello con cui potrei assisterti è Corban cioè un'offerta a Dio",
12 non gli lasciate piú far nulla per suo padre o per sua madre,
13 annullando cosí la parola di Dio con la vostra tradizione, che voi avete tramandata. E fate molte altre cose simili».
14 Poi, chiamata a sé tutta la folla, disse loro: «Ascoltatemi tutti ed intendete:
15 Non c'è nulla di esterno all'uomo che, entrando in lui, possa contaminarlo; sono invece le cose che escono da lui che lo contaminano.
16 Chi ha orecchi da udire, oda!».
17 Quando poi egli fu rientrato in casa, lontano dalla folla, i suoi discepoli lo interrogarono sul significato della parabola.
18 Ed egli disse loro: «Siete anche voi cosí privi d'intelligenza? Non capite voi che tutto ciò che dal di fuori entra nell'uomo non può contaminarlo,
19 perché non entra nel suo cuore, ma nel ventre, e poi se ne va nella fogna?». Cosí dicendo, dichiarava puri tutti gli alimenti.
20 Disse ancora: «Ciò che esce dall'uomo, quello lo contamina.
21 Dal di dentro infatti, cioè dal cuore degli uomini, procedono pensieri malvagi, adultéri, fornicazioni, omicidi,
22 furti, cupidigie, malizie, frodi, insolenza, invidia, bestemmia, orgoglio, stoltezza.
23 Tutte queste cose malvagie escono dal di dentro dell'uomo e lo contaminano».
24 Poi partí di là e andò nel territorio di Tiro e di Sidone, entrò in una casa e non voleva che alcuno lo sapesse, ma non potè restare nascosto.
25 Infatti una donna, la cui figlia aveva uno spirito immondo, avendo sentito parlare di Gesú, venne e gli si gettò ai piedi.
26 Or quella donna era greca, sirofenicia di origine, e lo pregava di scacciare il demone da sua figlia;
27 ma Gesú le disse: «Lascia che si sazino prima i figli, perché non è bene prendere il pane dei figli e gettarlo ai cagnolini».
28 Ma ella rispose e gli disse: «Dici bene, o Signore, ma anche i cagnolini sotto la tavola mangiano delle briciole dei figli».
29 Allora egli le disse: «Per questa tua parola, va il demone è uscito da tua figlia».
30 Ed ella, tornata a casa sua, trovò la figlia coricata a letto, e il demone era uscito da lei.
31 Poi Gesú, partito di nuovo dal territorio di Tiro e di Sidone, giunse al mare di Galilea, in mezzo al territorio della Decapoli.
32 E gli presentarono un sordo che parlava a stento, pregandolo di imporgli le mani.
33 Ed egli, condottolo in disparte, lontano dalla folla, gli mise le dita negli orecchi e, dopo aver sputato, gli toccò la lingua.
34 Poi, alzati gli occhi al cielo, sospirò e gli disse: «Effata», che vuol dire: «Apriti!».
35 E subito gli si aprirono gli orecchi si sciolse il nodo della sua lingua e parlava distintamente.
36 E Gesú ordinò loro di non dirlo a nessuno; ma quanto piú lo vietava loro, tanto piú essi lo divulgavano.
37 E, pieni di stupore, dicevano: «Egli ha fatto bene ogni cosa: egli fa udire i sordi e parlare i muti!».
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.
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