{"id":62,"date":"2022-05-02T00:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txcolliers.net\/biblestudy\/?p=62"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:56:40","slug":"mark-71-23-hand-washing-vs-clean-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txcolliers.net\/biblestudy\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Hand Washing vs Clean Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Mark 7:1-23\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clean and Unclean<\/span><\/strong>\nThe Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were \u201cunclean,\u201d that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. )\nSo the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, \u201cWhy don\u2019t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with \u2018unclean\u2019 hands?\u201d\nHe replied, \u201cIsaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:\n\u201c \u2018These people honor me with their lips,\nbut their hearts are far from me.\nThey worship me in vain;\ntheir teachings are but rules taught by men.\u2019\nYou have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What was the objection that the Pharisees and teachers of the law raised? Where did this objection come from?<\/li><li>How did Jesus respond to their objection?  How did this address the &#8220;root cause&#8221; of the issue?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">And he said to them: \u201cYou have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, \u2018Honor your father and your mother,\u2019 and, \u2018Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.\u2019 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: \u2018Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban\u2019 (that is, a gift devoted to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.\u201d\nAgain Jesus called the crowd to him and said, \u201cListen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him \u2018unclean\u2019 by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him \u2018unclean.\u2019\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What does Jesus&#8217; further comment add to what he said previously?<\/li><li>Why do you think Jesus addressed the crowd when he did?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. \u201cAre you so dull?\u201d he asked. \u201cDon\u2019t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him \u2018unclean\u2019? For it doesn\u2019t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.\u201d (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods \u201cclean.\u201d)\nHe went on: \u201cWhat comes out of a man is what makes him \u2018unclean.\u2019 For from within, out of men\u2019s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man \u2018unclean.\u2019 \u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What was the explanation that Jesus offered for the parable?  Why do you think that the author, Mark, added the parenthetical comment?<\/li><li>This is quite a list of things that come out of people&#8217;s hearts. Where else in scripture do we find similar enumerations?<\/li><li>What are the implications we see from this teaching of Jesus?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 7:1-23 Clean and Unclean The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were \u201cunclean,\u201d that is, unwashed. 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