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Passage Lookup: Mark 7:14-37
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Mark 7:14
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Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
Mark 7:15
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Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."
Mark 7:16
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Mark 7:17
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After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him(n) about this parable.
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Mark 7:18
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"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Mark 7:19
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For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods(o) clean.)(p)
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Mark 7:20
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He went on: "What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
Mark 7:21
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For it is from within, out of a person's heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Mark 7:22
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adultery, greed,(q) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
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Mark 7:23
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All these evils come from inside and defile a person."
Mark 7:24
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Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.[g](s) He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret.
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Mark 7:25
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In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit(t) came and fell at his feet.
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Mark 7:26
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The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 7:27
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"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
Mark 7:28
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"Lord," she replied, "even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
Mark 7:29
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Then he told her, "For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter."
Mark 7:30
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She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Mark 7:31
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Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre(v) and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee(w) and into the region of the Decapolis.[h](x)
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Mark 7:32
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There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk,(y) and they begged Jesus to place his hand on(z) him.
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Mark 7:33
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After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit(aa) and touched the man's tongue.
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Mark 7:34
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He looked up to heaven(ab) and with a deep sigh(ac) said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means "Be opened!" ).
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Mark 7:35
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At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.(ad)
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Mark 7:36
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Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone.(ae) But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.
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Mark 7:37
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People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
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