{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "mark", "chapter": 7 }, "data": { "n": 7, "bookSlug": "mark", "bookCode": "MRK", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "MRK-7:1", "verseRef": "MRK.7.1", "text": "And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "MRK-7:2", "verseRef": "MRK.7.2", "text": "and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "MRK-7:3", "verseRef": "MRK.7.3", "text": "(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "MRK-7:4", "verseRef": "MRK.7.4", "text": "and [when they come] from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "MRK-7:5", "verseRef": "MRK.7.5", "text": "And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "MRK-7:6", "verseRef": "MRK.7.6", "text": "And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "MRK-7:7", "verseRef": "MRK.7.7", "text": "But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "MRK-7:8", "verseRef": "MRK.7.8", "text": "Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "MRK-7:9", "verseRef": "MRK.7.9", "text": "And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "MRK-7:10", "verseRef": "MRK.7.10", "text": "For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "MRK-7:11", "verseRef": "MRK.7.11", "text": "but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "MRK-7:12", "verseRef": "MRK.7.12", "text": "ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "MRK-7:13", "verseRef": "MRK.7.13", "text": "making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "MRK-7:14", "verseRef": "MRK.7.14", "text": "And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "MRK-7:15", "verseRef": "MRK.7.15", "text": "there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "MRK-7:16", "verseRef": "MRK.7.16", "text": "[If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.]" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "MRK-7:17", "verseRef": "MRK.7.17", "text": "And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "MRK-7:18", "verseRef": "MRK.7.18", "text": "And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "MRK-7:19", "verseRef": "MRK.7.19", "text": "because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "MRK-7:20", "verseRef": "MRK.7.20", "text": "And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "MRK-7:21", "verseRef": "MRK.7.21", "text": "For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries," },{ "n": 22, "refId": "MRK-7:22", "verseRef": "MRK.7.22", "text": "covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "MRK-7:23", "verseRef": "MRK.7.23", "text": "all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "MRK-7:24", "verseRef": "MRK.7.24", "text": "And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "MRK-7:25", "verseRef": "MRK.7.25", "text": "But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "MRK-7:26", "verseRef": "MRK.7.26", "text": "Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "MRK-7:27", "verseRef": "MRK.7.27", "text": "And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "MRK-7:28", "verseRef": "MRK.7.28", "text": "But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children`s crumbs." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "MRK-7:29", "verseRef": "MRK.7.29", "text": "And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "MRK-7:30", "verseRef": "MRK.7.30", "text": "And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "MRK-7:31", "verseRef": "MRK.7.31", "text": "And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "MRK-7:32", "verseRef": "MRK.7.32", "text": "And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "MRK-7:33", "verseRef": "MRK.7.33", "text": "And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;" },{ "n": 34, "refId": "MRK-7:34", "verseRef": "MRK.7.34", "text": "and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "MRK-7:35", "verseRef": "MRK.7.35", "text": "And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "MRK-7:36", "verseRef": "MRK.7.36", "text": "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." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "MRK-7:37", "verseRef": "MRK.7.37", "text": "And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/mark/chapters/7", "book": "/v1/library/books/mark/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/mark/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }