Mark 7
Greek: New Testament (NAS)
English: John Barach
Chapter 7
Tradition and Commandment
1  Καὶ συνάγονται πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καί τινες τῶν γραμματέων ἐλθόντες ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων. 2  καὶ ἰδόντες τινὰς τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ ὅτι κοιναῖς χερσίν, τοῦτ' ἔστιν ἀνίπτοις, ἐσθίουσιν τοὺς ἄρτους 3  — οἱ γὰρ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ πάντες οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἐὰν μὴ πυγμῇ νίψωνται τὰς χεῖρας οὐκ ἐσθίουσιν, κρατοῦντες τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, 4  καὶ ἀπ' ἀγορᾶς ἐὰν μὴ βαπτίσωνται οὐκ ἐσθίουσιν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλά ἐστιν ἃ παρέλαβον κρατεῖν, βαπτισμοὺς ποτηρίων καὶ ξεστῶν καὶ χαλκίων [καὶ κλινῶν]— 5  καὶ ἐπερωτῶσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς, Διὰ τί οὐ περιπατοῦσιν οἱ μαθηταί σου κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, ἀλλὰ κοιναῖς χερσὶν ἐσθίουσιν τὸν ἄρτον;
1And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered toward Him. 2And they saw that some of His disciples were eating their bread with “common” hands—that is, unwashed. 3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with a fist, holding fast to the tradition of the elders; 4and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they sprinkle themselves; and there are many other things which they received to hold fast to: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and copper kettles, and dining couches.) 5And the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but instead eat their bread with common hands?”
6  ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Καλῶς ἐπροφήτευσεν Ἠσαΐας περὶ ὑμῶν τῶν ὑποκριτῶν, ὡς γέγραπται [ὅτι]
  Οὗτος ὁ λαὸς τοῖς χείλεσίν με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἀπέχει ἀπ' ἐμοῦ·
7  μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων. {Isaiah 29:13 LXX}
6But He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied beautifully about you hypocrites, as it is written:
  ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me;
7in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ {Isaiah 29:13 LXX}
8  ἀφέντες τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ κρατεῖτε τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀνθρώπων. 9  Καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, Καλῶς ἀθετεῖτε τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν τηρήσητε 10  Μωϋσῆς γὰρ εἶπεν, Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου, {Exodus 20:12} καί, Ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα θανάτῳ τελευτάτω. {Exodus 21:17} 11  ὑμεῖς δὲ λέγετε, Ἐὰν εἴπῃ ἄνθρωπος τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί, Κορβᾶν ὅ ἐστιν, Δῶρον, ὃ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφεληθῇς, 12  οὐκέτι ἀφίετε αὐτὸν οὐδὲν ποιῆσαι τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί, 13  ἀκυροῦντες τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παραδόσει ὑμῶν ᾗ παρεδώκατε· καὶ παρόμοια τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ποιεῖτε.
8Having let go of the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.” 9And He was saying to them, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commandment of God so that you may keep your own tradition! 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ {Exodus 20:12} and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ {Exodus 21:17} 11But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother: Whatever help you might have received from me is Corban (that is, a gift dedicated to God),’ 12you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. 13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition which you handed down. And you do many such similar things.”
What Truly Defiles
14  Καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος πάλιν τὸν ὄχλον ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, Ἀκούσατέ μου πάντες καὶ σύνετε. 15  οὐδέν ἐστιν ἔξωθεν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς αὐτὸν ὃ δύναται κοινῶσαι αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενα ἐστιν τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον. 16  [[εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.]]
14And after summoning the crowd again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand. 15There is nothing from outside the person that, by entering into him, is able to ‘make him common’ (defile him); but the things proceeding out of the person are the things that defile the person.” 16[[If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.]]
17  Καὶ ὅτε εἰσῆλθεν εἰς οἶκον ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου, ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν παραβολήν. 18  καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀσύνετοί ἐστε; οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι πᾶν τὸ ἔξωθεν εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐ δύναται αὐτὸν κοινῶσαι 19  ὅτι οὐκ εἰσπορεύεται αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν καρδίαν ἀλλ' εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν, καὶ εἰς τὸν ἀφεδρῶνα ἐκπορεύεται. καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα;
17And when He entered the house, away from the crowd, His disciples began questioning Him about the parable. 18And He says to them, “Are you also so without understanding? Do you not perceive that everything from the outside entering into a person is not able to defile him, 19because it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
20  ἔλεγεν δὲ ὅτι Τὸ ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενον, ἐκεῖνο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον. 21  ἔσωθεν γὰρ ἐκ τῆς καρδίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἱ διαλογισμοὶ οἱ κακοὶ ἐκπορεύονται, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, φόνοι, 22  μοιχεῖαι, πλεονεξίαι, πονηρίαι, δόλος, ἀσέλγεια, ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρός, βλασφημία, ὑπερηφανία, ἀφροσύνη, 23  πάντα ταῦτα τὰ πονηρὰ ἔσωθεν ἐκπορεύεται καὶ κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.
20And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the person—that is what defiles the person. 21For from within, out of the heart of people, evil designs proceed: sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22adulteries, greeds, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an ‘evil eye’ (envy), slander, pride, folly. 23All these evil things proceed from within and defile the person.”
The Faith of a Syrophoenician Woman
24  Ἐκεῖθεν δὲ ἀναστὰς ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὰ ὅρια Τύρου. καὶ εἰσελθὼν εἰς οἰκίαν οὐδένα ἤθελεν γνῶναι, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνήθη λαθεῖν· 25  ἀλλ' εὐθὺς ἀκούσασα γυνὴ περὶ αὐτοῦ, ἧς εἶχεν τὸ θυγάτριον αὐτῆς πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον, ἐλθοῦσα προσέπεσεν πρὸς τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ· 26  ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἦν Ἑλληνίς, Συροφοινίκισσα τῷ γένει, καὶ ἠρώτα αὐτὸν ἵνα τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐκβάλῃ ἐκ τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς.
24And having risen up from there, He went away into the regions of Tyre. And having entered a house, He wanted no one to know it, yet He was not able to escape notice. 25Instead, immediately, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26Now the woman was a Greek, Syrophoenician by race, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27  καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτῇ, Ἄφες πρῶτον χορτασθῆναι τὰ τέκνα, οὐ γὰρ ἐστιν καλὸν λαβεῖν τὸν ἄρτον τῶν τέκνων καὶ τοῖς κυναρίοις βαλεῖν. 28  ἡ δὲ ἀπεκρίθη καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, Κύριε· καὶ τὰ κυνάρια ὑποκάτω τῆς τραπέζης ἐσθίουσιν ἀπὸ τῶν ψιχίων τῶν παιδίων. 29  καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ, Διὰ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ὕπαγε, ἐξελήλυθεν ἐκ τῆς θυγατρός σου τὸ δαιμόνιον. 30  καὶ ἀπελθοῦσα εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτῆς εὗρεν τὸ παιδίον βεβλημένον ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην καὶ τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐξεληλυθός.
27And He was saying to her, “Let the children first be satisfied, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” 28But she answered and says to Him, “Lord, even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.” 29And He said to her, “Because of this word, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” 30And having gone away to her home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
Healing a Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment
31  Καὶ πάλιν ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῶν ὁρίων Τύρου ἦλθεν διὰ Σιδῶνος εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὁρίων Δεκαπόλεως. 32  καὶ φέρουσιν αὐτῷ κωφὸν καὶ μογιλάλον καὶ παρακαλοῦσιν αὐτὸν ἵνα ἐπιθῇ αὐτῷ τὴν χεῖρα. 33  καὶ ἀπολαβόμενος αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου κατ' ἰδίαν ἔβαλεν τοὺς δακτύλους αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ καὶ πτύσας ἥψατο τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ, 34  καὶ ἀναβλέψας εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἐστέναξεν καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, Ἐφφαθά, ὅ ἐστιν, Διανοίχθητι.
31And again, having gone out from the regions of Tyre, He came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the regions of the Decapolis. 32And they bring to Him a man who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they beg Him to lay His hand on him. 33And having taken him aside from the crowd privately, He put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue. 34And looking up into heaven, He sighed deeply and says to him, “Ephphatha,” which is, “Be opened!”
35  καὶ [εὐθέως] ἠνοίγησαν αὐτοῦ αἱ ἀκοαί, καὶ ἐλύθη ὁ δεσμὸς τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐλάλει ὀρθῶς. 36  καὶ διεστείλατο αὐτοῖς ἵνα μηδενὶ λέγωσιν· ὅσον δὲ αὐτοῖς διεστέλλετο, αὐτοὶ μᾶλλον περισσότερον ἐκήρυσσον. 37  καὶ ὑπερπερισσῶς ἐξεπλήσσοντο λέγοντες, Καλῶς πάντα πεποίηκεν, καὶ τοὺς κωφοὺς ποιεῖ ἀκούειν καὶ [τοὺς] ἀλάλους λαλεῖν.
35And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was immediately released, and he began speaking clearly. 36And He ordered them that they should tell no one; but the more He ordered them, the more exceedingly they proclaimed it. 37And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”