Mar 7:1-13 | TSK | STEP | The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands. They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men. Meat defiles not the man. He heals the Syrophenician woman's daughter of an unclean spirit; and one that was deaf, and stammered in his speech. The Pharisees.

Mark 7:1-13

1 The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands.

8 They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men.

14 Meat defiles not the man.

24 He heals the Syrophenician woman's daughter of an unclean spirit;

31 and one that was deaf, and stammered in his speech.

The Pharisees.

3:22; Mt 15:1; Lu 5:17; 11:53,54

defiled. or, common.

Ac 10:14,15,28

they found.

Da 6:4,5; Mt 7:3-5; 23:23-25

oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.Theophylact. [Pugme ,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos ,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.

the tradition.

7-10,13; Mt 15:2-6; Ga 1:14; Col 2:8,21-23; 1Pe 1:18

except.

Job 9:30,31; Ps 26:6; Isa 1:16; Jer 4:14; Mt 27:24; Lu 11:38,39

Joh 2:6; 3:25; Heb 9:10; Jas 4:8; 1Jo 1:7

pots."Gr. Sextarius; about a pint and a half."

tables. or, beds.

2:16-18; Mt 15:2; Ac 21:21,24; Ro 4:12; 2Th 3:6,11

Well.

Isa 29:13; Mt 15:7-9; Ac 28:25

hypocrites.

Mt 23:13-15; Lu 11:39-44

honoureth.

Eze 33:31; Ho 8:2,3; Joh 5:42; 8:41,42,54,55; 15:24; 2Ti 3:5

Tit 1:16; Jas 2:14-17

in vain.

1Sa 12:21; Mal 3:14; Mt 6:7; 15:9; 1Co 15:14,58; Tit 3:9; Jas 1:26

Jas 2:20

the commandments.

De 12:32; Col 2:22; 1Ti 4:1-3; Re 14:11,12; 22:18

laying.

Isa 1:12

the tradition.

3,4

Full.

2Ki 16:10-16; Isa 24:5; 29:13; Jer 44:16,17; Da 7:25; 11:36

Mt 15:3-6; 2Th 2:4

reject. or, frustrate.

13; Ps 119:126; Ro 3:31; Ga 2:21

Honour.

10:19; Ex 20:12; De 5:16

Whoso.

Ex 21:17; Le 20:9; De 27:16; Pr 20:20; 30:17; Mt 15:4

It is Corban.Rather, "Let it be a {corban,}" a formula common among the Jews on such occasions; by which the Pharisees released a child from supporting his parents; and even deemed it sacrilege if he afterwards gave anything for their use.

Mt 15:5; 23:18; 1Ti 5:4-8

the word.

9; Isa 8:20; Jer 8:8,9; Ho 8:12; Mt 5:17-20; 15:6; Tit 1:14

such.

Eze 18:14; Ga 5:21