GREAT THINGS ENTERPRISE
CLAUDE BLACK
Mark Translation
The Gospel of Mark
Chapter 7
Close literal translation
1. And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him.
2. And they saw some of his disciples that were eating loaves with common hands, that is, unwashed,
3. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands with a fist, they do not eat because they hold to the tradition of the elders.
4. And when they come from the marketplace, unless they wash, they do not eat, and there are many other traditions they hold to, washing cups and vessels and utensils and dining couches.
5. And the Pharisees and scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unclean hands?”
6. And he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly concerning you hypocrites, as it was written: These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.
7. Vainly they worship me, teaching the commandments of men as doctrine.’
8. Having let go the commandment of God, you are holding to the tradition of men.” [The washing of pots and cups, and many other such things you do.]
9. And he said to them, “How neatly you set aside the commandment of God, in order that you might establish your own tradition!”
10. For Moses said, “Honor your father and mother, and the one who reviles father or mother must die the death.”
11. But you say, “If a man says to his father or mother, whatever you would have received from me is Corban, a gift [dedicated to God],
12. No longer do you permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13. Thus you nullify the Word of God by your hand-me-down tradition. And you do many such similar things.”
14. After he again called the crowd, he said to them, “All of you listen to me and understand:
15. There is nothing outside of a man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out of the man are the things defiling the man.
16. If anyone has ears to hear, hear.”
17. And when he entered into a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. And he said to them, “Thus also are you without understanding? Or do you not understand that everything that enters into a man from the outside is not able to defile him?
19. Because it does not enter his heart, but into his stomach and goes out into the toilet.” Thus he declared all food clean.
20. Thus he said, “The thing coming out of a man—that defiles the man.
21. For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil thoughts: sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries,
22. covetousnesses, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, greed, slander, foolishness.
23. All these evil things come out from within and defile the man.
24. And he arose and departed from there into the region of Tyre and Sidon. And when he entered into a house, he wished no one to know, but he was not able to escape notice.
25. But immediately, a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, she came and fell down at his feet.
26. But the woman was Greek, Syrophoenician by race, and she kept asking him that he might cast the demon out of her daughter.
27. And he said to her, “Permit first the children to be fed, for it is not good to take the bread of the children and to throw it to the little dogs.”
28. But she answered and said to him, “Lord, even the little dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children.”
29. And he said to her, “Because of this word, go. The demon has departed from your daughter.”
30. And after she departed to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, and the demon having departed.
31. And again, leaving from the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the midst of the region of Decapolis.
32. And they brought to him a deaf man who spoke with difficulty, and they implored him that he might place his hand upon him.
33. And taking him away from the crowd by himself, he put his finger into the man’s ears, and having spit, he touched the man’s tongue.
34. And after he looked up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened!”
35. And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosened, and he spoke plainly.
36. And he charged them that they should tell no one, but as much as he charged them, all the more they proclaimed it.
37. And beyond all measure they were exceedingly amazed, saying, “He has done all things well, even the deaf he made to hear and the mute to speak.”
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