Battering Ram (Mark) 7

 7

 

1 Then The Separate (Pharisees) came to Him, and certain of the scribes came from Rain of Peace (Jerusalem).

2 When they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, unwashed hands, they found fault.

3 The Separate (Pharisees) and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4 When they come from the market, they don’t eat unless they wash. And many other things, rules, which they have received to hold, like the washing of cups, pots, brazen vessels, and tables.

5 Then The Separate (Pharisees) and scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your  disciples hold to the tradition of the elders and eat bread with unwashed hands?

6 He answered them, “I AM’s Help (Isaiah) prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.’

7 They worship Me in vain, teaching the commandments of men for doctrines.

8 In laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other things like this you do.”

9 He continued, “Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

10 Moses said, ‘Honor your father and you mother; and, ‘Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:’

11 But you say, ‘If a man will say to his father or mother, ‘It is Corban,’ that is to say, a gift, whatever you might be provided by me; he will be free.’

12 And you permit him to do no more for his father or his mother;

13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you teach: and many such  things you do.”

14 And when He had called all the people to Him, He said to them, “Listen to Me, every one of you, and understand:

15 There is nothing from outside 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 has ears to hear, let him hear.”

17 When He entered the house from the people, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.

18 He questioned them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever enters into a man from the outside cannot defile him;

19 Because it doesn’t enter  his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all foods?”

20 He said, “That which comes out of the man, that is what defiles 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 From there, He arose and went into the borders of A Rock (Tyre) and Hunter/Fisher (Sidon), and secretly entered  a house, but He could not be hidden.

25 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 Gentile (Greek), an Exalted Palm (Syrophenician) by nation; and she begged Him to cast the devil out of her daughter.

27 But I AM is Our Salvation (Yeshua) said to her, “Let the children first be filled: for it is not right to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.”

28 But she answered, “Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.”

29 He answered her, “Because you said this, go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter.”

30 When she came to her house, she found the devil had gone out, and her daughter lay on the bed.

31 Again, He departed from the region of A Rock (Tyre) and Hunter/Fisher (Sidon), and He came to the sea of Circuit-District (Galilee), through the midst of Ten Cities (Decapolis).

32 There they brought to Him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they asked Him to put His hand on him.

33 So 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 said to Him, “Ephphasa, that is, Be opened.”

35 Right away his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

36 He charged them to tell no man, but the more He charged them, the more they talked about Him.

37 Telling of their astonishment, saying, “He has done all things well: He even makes the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.