Mark 7

1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. ‡ Mat 15:1-20Mrk 3:22Luk 11:53-54Luk 5:17 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. ‡ Act 10:28Mat 7:3-5Rom 14:14Act 10:14-15Act 11:8Dan 6:4-5Mat 23:23-25 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. ‡ Gal 1:14Mrk 7:13Col 2:21-23Col 2:81Pe 1:18Mat 15:2-6Mrk 7:5Mrk 7:7-10 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. ‡ Heb 9:10Luk 11:38-39Mat 23:25Isa 1:16Jas 4:8Jer 4:14Jhn 2:61Jn 1:7 +45 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? ‡ 2Th 3:6Act 21:21Act 21:24Gal 1:14Mat 15:2Mrk 2:16-18Rom 4:122Th 3:11 +16 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. ‡ Isa 29:13Tit 1:16Mat 15:7-9Ezk 33:312Ti 3:5Mat 23:13-15Jas 2:14-17Jhn 5:42 +67 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ‡ Isa 29:13Mat 15:9Col 2:22Jas 1:26Mat 6:71Ti 4:1-3Tit 3:91Sa 12:21 +78 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. ‡ Mrk 7:3-4Isa 1:12 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ‡ Isa 29:13Gal 2:21Jer 44:16-17Isa 24:5Mat 15:3-6Psa 119:126Mrk 7:13Mrk 7:3 +510 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: ‡ Exo 21:17Exo 20:12Deu 5:16Lev 20:9Mat 15:4Mrk 10:19Deu 27:16Pro 20:20 +111 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. ‡ Mat 23:181Ti 5:4-8Mat 15:5 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. ‡ Mrk 7:9Tit 1:14Isa 8:20Mat 5:17-20Hos 8:12Jer 8:8-9Mat 15:6Ezk 18:14 +2

14 ¶ And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: ‡ Mat 15:10Pro 8:5Act 8:30Isa 6:91Ki 18:211Ki 22:28Luk 12:54-57Psa 94:8 +315 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. ‡ Pro 4:23Lev 11:42-47Tit 1:15Heb 13:9Mat 12:34Heb 9:10Mrk 7:18-23Rom 14:17 +716 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. ‡ Mat 15:15Mat 13:36Mrk 9:28Mat 13:10Mrk 4:10Mrk 4:34 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; ‡ Mat 15:16-17Heb 5:11Isa 28:9-10Luk 24:25Mat 16:111Co 3:2Jer 5:4-5Jhn 3:10 +119 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? ‡ Mat 15:171Co 6:13Act 10:15Act 11:9Col 2:16Col 2:21-22Luk 11:41Rom 14:1-12 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. ‡ Jas 3:6Jas 1:14-15Jas 4:1Mrk 7:15Mat 12:34-37Psa 41:6Mic 2:1Heb 7:6 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ‡ Jer 17:9Jas 4:1-3Rom 8:7-8Gal 5:19-21Mat 15:19Act 8:22Ezk 38:10Jas 2:4 +2322 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ‡ Mat 20:151Pe 2:151Pe 5:52Co 10:5Ecc 7:25Mat 6:23Oba 1:3-41Sa 18:8-9 +1223 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. ‡ Mrk 7:151Co 3:17Tit 1:15Jud 1:8Mrk 7:18

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. ‡ Mat 15:21-28Mat 11:21Ezk 28:2Mrk 6:31-32Mrk 3:7-81Ti 5:25Mat 9:28Ezk 28:21-22 +825 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: ‡ Mat 15:22Act 10:25-26Mrk 1:40Mrk 5:22-23Mrk 5:33Mrk 9:17-23Luk 17:16Rev 22:8-9 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. ‡ Mat 15:22Col 3:11Gal 3:28Isa 49:12 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. ‡ Mat 15:23-28Mat 7:6Act 22:21Eph 2:12Mat 10:5Rom 15:8 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. ‡ Rom 10:12Rom 3:29Act 11:17-18Isa 45:22Luk 15:30-32Luk 7:6-8Eph 2:12-14Eph 3:8 +429 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. ‡ Mat 5:3Isa 66:2Mat 8:9-131Jn 3:8Isa 57:15-16 30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. ‡ 1Jn 3:8Jhn 4:50-52

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. ‡ Mrk 5:20Mat 15:29-31Mat 4:25Mrk 7:24Mat 11:21Mat 4:18 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. ‡ Luk 11:14Mrk 5:23Mat 9:32-33 33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; ‡ Mrk 8:23Jhn 9:6-7Mrk 5:401Ki 17:19-222Ki 4:33-342Ki 4:4-6 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ‡ Jhn 11:41Mrk 5:41Act 9:34Act 9:40Jhn 11:33Mrk 6:41Jhn 11:43Mrk 8:12 +1135 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. ‡ Isa 35:5-6Isa 32:3-4Mat 11:5Mrk 2:12Psa 33:9 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; ‡ Mat 8:4Mrk 1:44-45Mrk 3:12Mrk 5:43Mrk 8:26 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. ‡ Mrk 6:51Exo 4:10-11Mrk 4:41Mrk 5:42Gen 1:31Mrk 2:12Psa 139:14Act 14:11 +4