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Mark 7

2 The disciples eat with unwasshen hands. 8 The commandment of God is transgressed by man’s traditions. 22 What defileth man. 24 Of the woman of Syrophenissa. 32 The healing of the domme. 37 The people praise Christ.
1.Then *gathered unto him the Pharises, and certain of the Scribes which came from Jerusalem.
2.And when they saw some of his disciples eat meat with ^common ahands, (that is to say unwasshen) they complained.
3.(For the Pharises, and all the Jewes, except they wash their hands boft, 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 taken upon them to observe, as the washing of cups, and cpottes, and of brasen vessels, and of tables.)
5.Then ask him the Pharises and Scribes, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat ^meat with unwasshen hands?
6.Then he answered and said unto them, Surely *Esai hath prophesied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their dlips, but their heart is far away from me.
7.But they worship me in vain, teaching for doctrines the ecommandments of men.
8.For ye lay the commandment of God apart, and observe the tradition of men, as the washing of pottes and of cups, and many other such like things ye do.
9.And he said unto them, Well, ye reject the commandment of God that ye may observe your own tradition.
10.For Moses said, *honour thy father, and thy mother: and, *Whosoever shall curse father or mother, let him fdye the death.
11.But ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, that is, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maist have profit, he shall
12.So ye suffer him no more to do any thing for his father, or his mother,
13.Making the word of God of none authority, by your tradition which ye have ordained: and ye do many such like things.
14.*Then he called the whole multitude unto him, and said unto them, Hearken you all unto me, and understand.
15.There gis nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceed out of him, are they which defile the man.
16.If any have ears to hear, let him hear.
17.And when he came into an house away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18.And he said unto them, What? are ye without understanding also? Do ye not know that whatsoever thing from without entreth into a man, can not defile him,
19.Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the bellie, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meats?
20.Then he said, That which cometh out of man, that defileth man.
21.*For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murthers,
22.Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, ^uncleanness, a ^wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23.All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
24.*And from thence he rose, and went into the borders of Tyrus and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would that no man should have knowen: but he could not be hid.
25.For a certain woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came, and fell at his feet.
26.(And the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenissan by nation) and she besought him that he would cast out the devil out of her daughter.
27.But Jesus said unto her, Let the hchildren first be fed: for it is not good to take the children’s bread, & to cast it unto I whelpes.
28.Then she answered, and said unto him, Trueth, Lord: yet in deed the whelpes eat under the table of the children’s kcrommes.
29.Then he said unto her, For this saying go thy way: the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30.And when she was come home to her house, she found the devil departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.
31.¶ And he departed again from the coasts of Tyrus and Sidon, and came unto the sea of Galile, through the middes of the coasts of Decapolis.
32.And they brought unto him one that was deaf, and stambred in his speech, and prayed him to put his hand upon him.
33.Then he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his ears, and did spit, and touched his tongue.
34.And looking up to heaven, he lsighed, and said unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35.And straight way his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was losed, and he spake plain.
36.And he commanded them, that they should tell no man: but how much soever he forbad them, the more a great deal they published it,
37.And were beyond measure astonied, saying, *mHe hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the domme to speak.

Notes

1-*.
Mt. 15.2.
2-^.
Or, filthy.
2-a.
The Pharises would not eat with unwashed hands because they thought that the common handling of things defiled them, so that they made holiness and religion to depend in hands washings.
3-b.
Or contentiously, striving to wash best.
4-c.
Little pots, somewhat more in quantity then a wine pint.
5-O.
r, breads.
6-*.
Is. 29.13.
6-d.
With an outward show.
7-e.
Whosoever teaches any doctrine but God’s word, is a false worshipper, and a seducer of the people, seem his doctrine never so probable to the judgement of man.
10-*.
Ex. 20.12, Deut. 5.16, Eph. 6.2.
10-*-1.
Ex. 21.17, Lev. 20.9, Pro. 20.20.
10-f.
That is, without any hope of pardon.
14-*.
Mt. 15.10.
15-g.
There is no outward or corporal thing, which enters into man, that can defile him: meaning chiefly of meats, which if they be taken exces- sively, it comes of the inordinate lust of the heart, and so the lust is evil.
21-*.
Gen. 6 and 8.21.
22-^.
Or, wantonness.
22-^-1.
Or, envy.
24-*.
Mt. 15.21.
27-h.
Meaning the Jews, to whom the promises were first made.
27-i.
The Jews took strangers no better then the dogs, and therefore Christ speaks according to their opinion.
28-k.
She asks but the poor crumbs, and not the children’s bread, wherein she declares her faith and humility.
34-l.
Declaring by this sign the compassion that he has upon man’s miseries.
37-*.
Gen. 1.31, Eccle. 39.16.
37-m.
As if they would say, besides all the miracles that he has done, even this now declares the whatsoever he does, is very well.