Mark 7 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem. ² They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands. ³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?" ⁶ He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites — as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ¹¹ But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), ¹² he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother. ¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that." ¹⁴ Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this: ¹⁵ nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him. ¹⁶ If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen to this." ¹⁷ Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying. ¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him? ¹⁹ It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean). ²⁰ "No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness, ²³ all these evils issue from within and they defile a man." ²⁴ Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice; ²⁵ a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet ²⁶ (the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter. ²⁷ He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first of all; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ She answered him, "No, sir, but under the table the dogs do pick up the children's crumbs." ²⁹ He said to her, "Well, go your way; the daemon has left your daughter, since you have said that." ³⁰ So she went home and found the child lying in bed and the daemon gone from her. ³¹ He left the territory of Tyre again and passed through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, crossing the territory of Decapolis. ³² And a deaf man who stammered was brought to him, with the request that he would lay his hand on him. ³³ So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva, ³⁴ and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open). ³⁵ Then his ears were [at once] opened and his tongue freed from its fetter — he began to speak correctly. ³⁶ Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more eagerly they made it public; ³⁷ they were astounded in the extreme, saying, "How splendidly he has done everything! He actually makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, ² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts." ¹⁰ Then he called the crowd and said to them, "Listen, understand this: ¹¹ it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth." ¹² Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?" ¹³ He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit." ¹⁵ Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate." ¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain, ¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander. ²⁰ That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"

²² But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

¹⁷ One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

³ Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take out the splinter from your eye,' when there lies the plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel! ²⁵ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

¹⁴ But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean." ¹⁵ A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

²⁸ To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

⁸ I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.'

¹⁴ I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean.

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

¹⁴ and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

²¹ "Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" — ²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets; ²³ they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

²⁵ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

²⁴ Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

³⁸ The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal, ³⁹ but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.

⁶ Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.

²⁵ Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';

¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

¹⁶ So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" ¹⁷ On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: I have not come to call just men but sinners." ¹⁸ As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?"

² They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands. ³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

²¹ Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

²⁴ associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, pay their expenses so that they may be free to have their heads shaved, and then everybody will understand there is nothing in these stories about you, but that, on the contrary, you are guided by obedience to the Law.

¹² as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man.

⁶ Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

¹¹ But we are informed that some of your number are loafing, busybodies instead of busy.

⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

¹³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering. ¹⁴ — - ¹⁵ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

³⁹ but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice. ⁴⁰ Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too? ⁴¹ Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you. ⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised — without omitting the former. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

⁴² but I know there is no love to God in you;

⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God." ⁴² Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

⁵⁴ Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,' ⁵⁵ but you do not understand him. I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him and I hold to his word.

²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father.

²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that? ¹⁷ So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

⁷ Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

¹⁴ and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

⁵⁸ Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

¹ But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach ² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience — ³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

⁹ But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

²⁶ Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

²⁰ But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name." ¹² This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

¹⁸ [I adjure all who hear the words of the prophecy of this book: "If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book;

³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].)

³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

³¹ Then 'by this faith' we 'cancel the Law'? Not for one moment! We uphold the Law.

²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

⁴ the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

¹⁹ You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,'

¹⁸ You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.'

⁴ (When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.) ⁵ The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications; ⁶ whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies. ⁷ So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred. ⁸ Whoever does not provide for his own relatives and particularly for his own family, has repudiated the faith: he is worse than an infidel.

¹⁷ Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil. ¹⁸ (I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force. ¹⁹ Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.) ²⁰ For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

¹⁴ instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

¹⁰ Then he called the crowd and said to them, "Listen, understand this:

¹ Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

⁵⁴ And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is: ⁵⁵ when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is. ⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era? ⁵⁷ And why do you not yourselves settle what is right?

⁴⁵ And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets; ⁴⁷ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

³⁰ When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?"

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant?

¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him? ¹⁹ It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean). ²⁰ "No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness, ²³ all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."

¹⁴ But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean." ¹⁵ A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common." ¹⁶ This happened three times; then the vessel was at once raised to heaven.

⁸ I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.' ⁹ But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.' ¹⁰ This happened three times, and then the whole thing was drawn back into heaven.

²⁰ but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood; ²¹ for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

²⁵ Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.

¹⁵ For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

¹⁵ He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

⁹ He added, "Anyone who has ears to hear, let him listen to this."

²³ If anyone has an ear to hear, let him listen to this."

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

²⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁶ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹³ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²² Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches."

¹⁰ Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?"

³⁶ Then he left the crowds and went indoors. And his disciples came up to him saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."

¹⁵ Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate."

¹⁰ When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable,

³⁴ he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

²⁸ When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?"

¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain,

¹¹ Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

¹³ And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

¹⁰ Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? — you, a teacher in Israel!

² I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

¹¹ On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain,

⁴¹ Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.

¹⁵ A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

⁹ But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

¹ Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples. ² While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables. ³ The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him. ⁴ Who are you to criticize the servant of Another? It is for his Master to say whether he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Master has power to make him stand. ⁵ Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind; ⁶ the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; ⁸ if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die; ⁹ it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God — ¹¹ for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God. ¹² Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God.

¹³ 'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

¹⁶ So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

²¹ "Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" — ²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of. ³⁵ The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil. ³⁶ I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter; ³⁷ for by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

¹⁵ nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

⁶ but he who had no Levitical genealogy actually tithed Abraham and blessed the possessor of the promises!

¹⁴ Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire; ¹⁵ then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell.

¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

⁴ Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

²⁵ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well. ²⁷ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity. ²⁸ So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

⁴ When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose.

⁵ For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless.

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot). ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

⁴ are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members? ² You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it; ³ you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions. ³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

²³ but if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened. And if your very light turns dark, then — what a darkness it is!

¹⁵ Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?'

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

¹⁵ for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

⁵ You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

¹⁷ God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred — and that is what you are.

⁸ Despite it all, these visionaries pollute their flesh, scorn the Powers celestial, and scoff at the angelic Glories.

²⁸ When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir."

²¹ "Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

²¹ Going away from there Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon." ²³ But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us." ²⁴ He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent." ²⁵ But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, do help me." ²⁶ He replied, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁷ "No, sir," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." ²⁸ At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.

¹ When he entered Capharnahum again after some days it was reported that he was at home,

⁷ Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea, and a large number of people from Galilee followed him; also a large number came to him from Judaea, ⁸ Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.

³¹ And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat). ³² So they went away privately in the boat to a lonely spot.

²⁵ Good works are equally conspicuous; and even when they are not, they cannot escape notice for ever.

²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

⁴⁰ A leper came to him beseeching him on bended knee, saying, "If you only choose, you can cleanse me;"

²² A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet ²³ with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

³³ and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

¹⁷ A man from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit, ¹⁸ and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." ¹⁹ He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me." ²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said; ²² "it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us." ²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes."

¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

²⁵ Peter was just going into the house when Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshipped him; ²⁶ but Peter raised him, saying, "Get up, I am only a man myself."

⁸ I John saw and heard all this; and when I heard and saw it, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me it all. ⁹ But he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers the prophets, who lay to heart the words of this book. Worship God."

²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

⁶ Do not give dogs what is sacred and do not throw pearls before swine, in case they trample them under foot and turn to gore you.

⁵ These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

⁶ So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof, ⁷ and so I did not consider myself fit even to come to you. Just say the word, and let my servant be cured. ⁸ For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

³⁰ But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!' ³¹ The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours. ³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

¹⁷ Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I — how could I try to thwart God?" ¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

²⁹ Or is God only the God of Jews? Is he not the God of the Gentiles as well? Surely he is.

¹² for there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, the same Lord is Lord of them all, with ample for all who invoke him.

⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers, ⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world. ¹³ Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, he who has made both of us a unity and destroyed the barrier which kept us apart;

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

⁹ For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." ¹⁰ When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel. ¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven, ¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth." ¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; as you have had faith, your prayer is granted." And the servant was cured at that very hour.

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

⁵⁰ Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey. ⁵¹ And on the road his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. ⁵² So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

¹⁸ As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea — for they were fishermen;

²⁵ And he was followed by great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from across the Jordan.

²⁹ Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there. ³⁰ And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them. ³¹ This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.

²⁰ So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

²⁴ Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;

³² As they went out, a dumb man was brought to him, who was possessed by a daemon, ³³ and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

²³ with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

¹⁴ He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,

⁴⁰ They laughed at him. However, he put them all outside and taking the father and mother of the child as well as his companions he went in to where the child was lying;

²³ So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, ⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

⁴¹ so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed."

⁴¹ then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" — which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

⁴¹ and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke the loaves in pieces which he handed to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all.

¹² But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation."

³⁴ and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Elôi, Elôi, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise."

⁴² And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well."

⁴¹ And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it,

³³ Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted.

³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

³⁸ This made Jesus chafe afresh, so he went to the tomb; it was a cave with a boulder to close it.

⁴¹ Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.

⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!"

¹ So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,

³⁴ "Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

⁴⁰ Peter put them all outside; then he knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body said, "Tabitha, rise." She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter she sat up.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised.

¹² And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

⁴ Then Jesus told him, "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, to notify men."

⁴⁴ "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men." ⁴⁵ But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

¹² But he charged them strictly and severely not to make him known.

⁴³ But he strictly forbade them to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

²⁶ And Jesus sent him home, saying, "Do not go even into the village."

²⁷ Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"

⁴¹ But they were overawed and said to each other, "Whatever can he be, when the very wind and sea obey him?"

⁴² The girl got up at once and began to walk (she was twelve years old); and at once they were lost in utter amazement.

⁵¹ And he got into the boat beside them, and the wind dropped. They were utterly astounded,

⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm."

⁷ All were amazed and astonished. "Are these not all Galileans," they said, "who are speaking? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya round Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabians, we hear these men talking of the triumphs of God in our own languages!" ¹² They were all amazed and quite at a loss. "What can it mean?" they said to one another.

¹⁰ and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him. ¹¹ As he clung to Peter and John, all the people rushed awestruck to them in what was called Solomon's portico. ¹² But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours? ¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

¹¹ Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"