Gospel of Mar Marqos: - Chapter 7

1Some of the Perushim and sofrim gathered around him, those who came from Yerushalayim, 2and they saw some of the talmidim who were eating bread when they had not washed their hands, and they complained. 3For all Jews and Perushim were stringent in observing the washing of the hands and it was the custom not to eat before washing the hands, but they had twisted the traditions of the zakanim* in this regard. 4And they twist many of the other traditions of the zakanim like the washing of cups and pots, vessels and sheets. 5And they, the sofrim and Perushim, asked him, "Why do your talmidim not walk in accordance with the traditions of the zakanim in relation to washing the hands before eating bread?" And they said, "They did not wash their hands."

6And he said to them, "Well did Ishayahu* prophesy about you hypocrites. It is written that 'these people honour me with their lips but their very hearts are distant from me. 7Their reverence is false because they are teaching the doctrines and commandments of the sons of men.'"

9"For you have abandoned the Torah of Alaha and have taken to yourselves to twisting the traditions of the sons of men as regards to many things including the washing of cups and pots and many other things that are similar to this." 10And he said to them, "You certainly have rejected the Torah of Alaha in order that you might set up your own traditions in place of those of Mosha." 11"For it was Mosha who said to honour your father and your mother and anyone who reviles his father or his mother must be put to death." 12"But you teach that if a man should say to his father or to his mother 'the support I have given to you is Qurban' and then you do not permit him to do anything else for his father or his mother." 13Because of this very thing you despise the word of Alaha because you attempt to twist the traditions handed down to you in order to make it appear before the sons of men as if you are observant in many things." 14And Yeshua called all the multitude and said to them, "Here me, all of you. 15Understand that there is nothing that is outside of a man that enters into him that is able to defile him, but the thing that goes out from him, that is what defiles a man. 16He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

17And when Yeshua entered into the house, away from the multitudes, his talmidim began asking him about this saying. 18He said to them, "You too are slow to understanding. Do you not know that every thing which enters from the outside into a man is not able to to defile him. 19Because it does not enter into his heart, rather into his stomach and is removed by way of excretion, which purifies all the food. 20But anything that goes out from a man is what defiles a man. 21For it is from the inside of the heart of the sons of men that evil thoughts proceed such as adultery, fornication, theft, murder, extortion, 22wickedness, deceit, lust, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. 23All of these things are evil, and from within do they proceed and defile a man."

24Yeshua rose up from that place and came to the border of Tyre and Tsidon and went into a certain house, and he desired that no one know about him there, however, he had no privacy. 25But straightway, a woman heard about him whose daughter had an unclean spirit within her. She came and fell at his feet. 26That woman was a Canaanite* and she was begging him to cast out the unclean spirit from her daughter. 27And Yeshua said to her, "First, permit the children to be satisfied, for it is not appropriate to take bread from the children and throw it to the dogs." 28But she answered ans said to him, "Yes, Mari, even the dogs under the table eat of the crumbs from the children." 29And Yeshua said to her, "Go! Because of this word the unclean spirit has exited from your daughter." 30And she went to her house and found that her daughter was lying on a mat and the unclean spirit had already left her body.

31Again, Yeshua went out from the border of Tyre and Tsidon and he came to the sea of Galil, on the border of the Ten Cities. 32 And they brought to him a certain deaf man who also had a speech impediment and they were asking him to place his hand upon him.

33And he led him away from the multitude to a private area and placed his fingers in his ears, and spit, and touched his tongue. 34He then looked into the heavens and breathed and said to him, "Be opened." 35And straightway his ears were opened and his tongue was made whole and was able to fully speak. 36And he instructed them not to speak of this to anyone, but the more he told them this, the more it became publicised. 37And they were all greatly astonished and they were saying, "Everything he has done is well; he even makes the deaf to hear and those who are unable to speak, they speak."

NOTES:

3, zakanim, "elders"

6, Ishayahu, see Ishayahu (Isaiah) 29:13

26,Canaanite, Three later Targumim say "Assyrian pagan" or "pagan from Assyria". Another later Targum: "Aramaic speaking pagan"