Mark 7
The Message
The Source of Your Pollution
7 1-4 The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around him. They noticed that some of his disciples weren’t being careful with ritual washings before meals. The Pharisees—Jews in general, in fact—would never eat a meal without going through the motions of a ritual hand-washing, with an especially vigorous scrubbing if they had just come from the market (to say nothing of the scourings they’d give jugs and pots and pans).
5 The Pharisees and religion scholars asked, “Why do your disciples brush off the rules, showing up at meals without washing their hands?”
6-8 Jesus answered, “Isaiah was right about frauds like you, hit the bull’s-eye in fact:
These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their heart isn’t in it.
They act like they are worshiping me,
but they don’t mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy,
Ditching God’s command
and taking up the latest fads.”
9-13 He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.”
14-15 Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Listen now, all of you—take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it’s what you vomit—that’s the real pollution.”
17 When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, “We don’t get it. Put it in plain language.”
18-19 Jesus said, “Are you being willfully stupid? Don’t you see that what you swallow can’t contaminate you? It doesn’t enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed.” (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.)
20-23 He went on: “It’s what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution.”
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24-26 From there Jesus set out for the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house there where he didn’t think he would be found, but he couldn’t escape notice. He was barely inside when a woman who had a disturbed daughter heard where he was. She came and knelt at his feet, begging for help. The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. She asked him to cure her daughter.
27 He said, “Stand in line and take your turn. The children get fed first. If there’s any left over, the dogs get it.”
28 She said, “Of course, Master. But don’t dogs under the table get scraps dropped by the children?”
29-30 Jesus was impressed. “You’re right! On your way! Your daughter is no longer disturbed. The demonic affliction is gone.” She went home and found her daughter relaxed on the bed, the torment gone for good.
31-35 Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns. Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him. He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man’s ears and some spit on the man’s tongue. Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, “Ephphatha!—Open up!” And it happened. The man’s hearing was clear and his speech plain—just like that.
36-37 Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more, beside themselves with excitement. “He’s done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless.”
Mak 7
Haitian Creole Version
7 ¶ Farizyen yo ak kèk dirèktè lalwa te soti Jerizalèm. Yo sanble bò kote Jezi.
2 Yo wè te gen nan disip li yo ki t'ap manje ak men yo tou sal, sa vle di, san yo pa t' lave men yo anvan.
3 Farizyen yo ak tout lòt jwif yo pa t' janm manje san yo pa t' lave men yo byen lave. Nan sa, yo t'ap swiv koutim granmoun lontan yo.
4 Lè yo soti nan mache, sa pa t' bon non plis pou yo te manje san yo pa t' pran yon beny anvan. Yo te gen yon bann lòt koutim konsa ankò yo t'ap swiv. Pa egzanp, yo te gen yon jan pou yo lave chak bagay, yon jan pou gode yo, yon jan pou krich yo, yon jan pou mamit yo, yon jan pou lave menm kabann yo.
5 Se sak fè, farizyen yo ak dirèktè lalwa yo mande Jezi: -Poukisa disip ou yo pa swiv koutim granmoun lontan yo? Men y'ap manje ak men yo tou sal.
6 Jezi reponn yo: -Bann ipokrit! Ezayi te gen rezon lè l' t'ap pale sou nou, jan sa ekri a: Se nan bouch pèp sa a respekte m', men kè yo byen lwen mwen.
7 Se tan yo y'ap pèdi lè y'ap fè sèvis pou mwen. Paske nan leson yo, se pawòl lèzòm y'ap moutre moun.
8 Jezi di yo konsa: -Nou mete kòmandman Bondye yo sou kote pou nou swiv koutim moun etabli.
9 Li di yo tou: -Nou byen konnen jan pou nou vire kòmandman Bondye yo voye jete, pou nou ka kenbe pwòp pawòl pa nou yo.
10 Tande byen. Moyiz di konsa: Respekte papa ou ak manman ou. Li di ankò: Si yon moun pale papa l' ak manman l' mal, se pou yo touye li.
11 Men nou menm, nou di: Si yon moun di papa l' osinon manman l': Tou sa m' ta gen pou m' ede ou la, li kòban (sa vle di: se yon ofrann mwen mete apa pou Bondye),
12 nan ka sa a, li pa bezwen fè anyen pou papa l' osinon manman li.
13 Se konsa nou fè pawòl Bondye yo pase pou anyen ak pawòl pa nou n'ap transmèt yonn bay lòt. Nou fè anpil lòt bagay konsa ankò.
14 Apre sa, Jezi rele foul moun yo vin bò kote l' ankò. Li di yo konsa: -Nou tout, tande byen sa m'ap di nou la a; manyè konprann sa.
15 Se pa bagay deyò ki antre anndan yon moun lè l'ap manje ki kapab mete l' nan kondisyon pou li pa ka sèvi Bondye.
16 Men, se sak sot nan kè l' ki ka mete l' nan kondisyon sa a. Si nou gen zòrèy poun tande, tande.
17 Lè l' fin kite foul moun yo dèyè, li antre nan kay la. Disip li yo mande l' esplike yo parabòl sa a.
18 Li di yo: -Nou menm tou, nou san konprann toujou? Nou pa konprann pawòl sa a: Tout bagay ki sot deyò antre anndan yon moun pa kapab mete l' nan kondisyon pou l' pa ka fè sèvis Bondye.
19 Paske, manje pa antre nan kè moun. Men, sa pase nan vant; apre, yo jete sa nan latrin. (Lè l' pale konsa, Jezi fè yo konprann tout manje bon.)
20 Li di yo ankò: -Sa ki soti nan kè yon nonm, se sa ki mete l' nan kondisyon pou l' pa ka fè sèvis Bondye.
21 Se nan kè yon moun, se anndan li tout move lide soti: lide fè ou fè tout move bagay, li fè ou vòlè, li fè ou touye moun;
22 li fè ou fè adiltè, li fè ou renmen lajan. Li rann ou mechan, fentè, li lage ou nan libètenaj, li ba ou gwo je, li fè ou pale moun mal, li fè ou gen lògèy, li rann ou fou.
23 Tout move bagay sa yo, se nan kè moun sa soti, se yo ki mete yon moun nan kondisyon pou l' pa ka fè sèvis Bondye.
24 ¶ Jezi kite kote li te ye a, li ale nan zòn ki nan vwazinaj lavil Tir la. li antre nan yon kay, li pa t' vle pesonn konnen li te la. Men, li pa t' kapab rete kache.
25 Se konsa te gen yon fanm ki te gen yon pitit fi l' ak yon move lespri sou li. Li tande pale sou Jezi. Menm lè a, li kouri vin bò kote l', li lage kò l' nan pye Jezi.
26 (Fanm sa a pa t' jwif, se moun peyi Siri, nan yon seksyon yo rele Fenisi.) Li te fè Jezi demann sa a: -Tanpri souple, chase move lespri ki sou pitit fi m' lan.
27 Men Jezi di l' konsa: -Kite vant ti moun yo plen anvan; paske sa pa bon pou wete pen nan bouch timoun pou bay ti chen.
28 Fanm lan reponn li: -Se vre wi, Mèt. Men, ti chen ki anba tab manje ti kal pen timoun jete atè.
29 Lè sa a Jezi di li: -Poutèt pawòl sa a, ou mèt al lakay ou: move lespri a soti sou pitit fi ou la.
30 Lè fanm lan rive lakay li, li jwenn pitit la kouche byen trankil sou kabann lan. Move lespri a te gen tan soti sou li.
31 ¶ Jezi kite zòn lavil Tir la. Li pase lavil Sidon, li travèse nan mitan peyi Dis Vil yo; li tounen lòt bò lanmè Galile a.
32 Yo mennen yon nonm ba li: nonm lan te soudè epi li pa t' pale byen. Yo mande Jezi pou li mete men l' sou tèt nonm lan.
33 Men Jezi pran men nonm lan, li fè l' soti nan mitan foul moun yo, li mennen l' sou kote. Li mete dwèt li nan zòrèy nonm lan, li krache, epi li manyen lang nonm lan.
34 Apre sa, li leve je l' nan syèl la, li bay yon soupi. Li di: -Efata! (ki vle di: Louvri!)
35 Latou, zòrèy nonm lan louvri, lang nonm lan demare nan bouch li epi li pran pale trè byen.
36 Jezi te mande yo tout pou yo pa t' di pesonn sa. Men plis li te defann yo pale se plis yo te mache pale bagay la.
37 Moun yo te pi sezi ankò. Yo t'ap di: -Nonm sa a fè tout afè l' byen. Li fè soudè yo tande, li fè bèbè yo pale.
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