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Mark 7:2
And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
Verse Mark 7:2. _THEY FOUND FAULT._] This is wanting in ABEHLV, nineteen others, and several versions: _Mill_ and _Bengel_ approve the omission, and _Griesbach_ rejects the word. If the 3d and 4th ver...
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 15:1. Mark 7:1 CAME FROM JERUSALEM - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him. Mark 7
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Opposition of the Pharisees. (Mark 7:1 .Matthew 15:1)_ 2. Grace shown to the Syrophenician Woman. (Mark 7:24. Matthew
THE WASHING OF HANDS AND THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. This discussion with the Pharisees serves to bring out the antagonism of Jesus to the restrictions which separated Jews from Gentiles. Perhaps fo...
There gathered together to Jesus the Pharisees, and some of the experts in the law who had come down from Jerusalem. They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with hands which were ceremonia...
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN (Mark 7:1-4)...
SAW. Greek. _eidon,_ App-133. DEFILED. not ceremonially cleansed. THAT IS TO SAY. Explanation for Gentile readers....
_with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands_ Thus St Mark explains for his Roman readers, and then proceeds more fully to set forth certain Jewish usages. The Pharisees had probably crept in s...
ὍΤΙ … ἘΣΘΊΟΥΣΙΝ ([1368][1369][1370][1371] 33) rather than ἐσθίοντας ([1372][1373][1374][1375] etc.). [1376][1377][1378][1379][1380] 33 omit ἐμέμψαντο, which was added to complete the construction; [13...
1–13. QUESTIONS OF CEREMONIAL CLEANSING Matthew 15:1-20...
Ver 1. Then came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2. And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, the unwashen...
_HUMAN TRADITIONS AND THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN MARK 7:1-13:_ The Scribes and the Pharisees were constant foes of Jesus. Pharisees were a strict religious sect of the Jews. The Scribes copied and taught...
ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΚΟΙΝΌΣ (G2839) обычный, мирской, нечистый с ритуальной точки зрения. ΧΕΡΣΊΝ _dat. pl. от_ ΧΕΊΡ (G5495) рука. _Instr. dat._ ΆΝΙΠΤΟΣ (G449) н...
10. CONFLICT WITH PHARISEES 7:1-23. a. _Conflict over washings 7:1-8_ _TEXT 7:1-8_ And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which had come from Jerusalem,...
_SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 15:1. The first words of this narrative show that the...
43 To fully appreciate the import of this sign, it must be compared with a similar one which occurred some time later. The cumulative contrast cannot be fully seen in an inaccurate version, but is rea...
EATING WITH UNWASHED HANDS. THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN. HEALING OF A DEAF MAN 1-23. Eating with unwashed hands (Matthew 15:1). See on Mt. 3, 4. A note added by St. Mark for the benefit of his Gentile...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 7 GOD’S PEOPLE MUST BE DIFFERENT VERSES 1-16 God’s people should not do all the sa...
CHAPTER 6:53-7:13 (MARK 6:53 - MARK 7:1) UNWASHEN HANDS "And when they had crossed over, they came to the land unto Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.. Making void the word of God by your traditio...
καὶ ἰδόντες : the sentence beginning with these words properly runs on to the end of Mark 7:5, but the construction of so long a sentence overtaxes the grammatical skill of the writer, so it is broken...
_Concerning ceremonial ablutions_ (Matthew 15:1-20)....
BREAKING THE BONDS OF TRADITION Mark 7:1-23 The Pharisees laid great stress on ritual. They followed endless rules, both intricate and troublesome, as to ablutions and outward ceremonials. So long as...
In strong and clear language the Master denounced tradition as contrary to the commandment of God. 1. Things from without do not defile, and therefore are not sin. Temptation is not sin. 2. Only tha...
And when they saw some of his disciples (a) eat bread with (b) defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. (a) Literally, "eat bread": an idiom which the Hebrews use, understandi...
_With common hands. It may be translated, with defiled hands; as also ver. 15; but the circumstances plainly shew the sense. (Witham)_...
CHAPTER 34 BAPTIZE NOT ALWAYS A TOTAL SUBMERSION Matthew 15:1-2; Mark 7:1-6. “And the Pharisees and certain ones, the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, are assembled before Him. And seeing certain...
CONTENTS. The _Pharisees assemble to contend with_ CHRIST. JESUS _reproves them. He heals a poor child, and cures one that was deaf and dumb._ THEN came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain o...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
The ruling power in exercise among the Jews had shewn itself hostile to the testimony of God, and had put to death the one whom He had sent in the way of righteousness. The scribes, and those who pret...
AND WHEN THEY SAW SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES,.... An opportunity soon offered of giving them an handle against him: for observing some of his disciples to sit down to meat, they took notice that they EAT...
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. Ver. 2. _With defiled_] Gr. with common hands, κοιναις χερσι. Common and defile...
_Then came the Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem_ They probably came on purpose to find occasion against him. For some of them followed him from place to place, looking on every thing he did, even...
Traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. Matthew 15:1-20....
SERMON #1 TITLE: Well Intentioned Dragons TEXT: Mark 7:1-4 PROPOSITION: In every group there are some dragons. QUESTION: Who? KEY WORD: Descriptions READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1. Every church has t...
DEFILED: Or, common...
1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pur...
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Mark 7:2 Now G2532 saw G1492 (G5631) some G5100 His G846 disciples G3101 eat G2068 (G5723) bread...
‘And had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands. For the Pharisees and all the Judaisers do not eat unless they ceremonially wash with the fist, holding...
JESUS BEGINS TO REACH OUT TO GENTILES (7:1-8:21). At this stage in His ministry Jesus begins to reach out further afield, for from this point on He spends much time preaching in territory which is mai...
THE SCRIBES FROM JERUSALEM RETURN TO LEARN SOME HOME TRUTHS (7:1-16). Jesus' continued impact is now brought out by the reappearance of the Doctors of Law from Jerusalem who have come down to investig...
JESUS FACES UP TO THE SCRIBES FROM JERUSALEM AND WARNS THEM AGAINST A FALSE EMPHASIS ON THEIR TRADITIONS INSTEAD OF ON THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD (7:1-8). Here Jesus makes clear that ‘the traditions of t...
Mark 7:2. WHEN THEY SAW, _i.e.,_ on some very recent occasion. THAT SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES ATE THEIR BREAD. ‘This incident naturally brings to view the constant and intrusive _surveillance_ to which...
The history of the last year of our Lord's ministry begins here. See notes on Matthew 15:1-20. Mark introduces several independent details: the fact that the opposers came from Jerusalem (Mark 7:1), t...
WITH DEFILED, THAT IS UNWASHEN HANDS (κοιναις χερσιν, τουτ' εστιν ανιπτοις). Associative instrumental case. Originally κοινος meant what was common to everybody like the _Koine_ Greek. But in later...
CONTENTS: Jesus rebukes Pharisees. Healing of daughter of Syrophenician woman and a deaf and dumb man. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes, disciples, Syrophenician woman, her daughter, deaf man, I...
Mark 7:3. _The pharisees, and all the jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not._ Their traditionary laws, which enjoined all possible corporeal purity, were built on the notion that a person mi...
WITH UNCLEAN HANDS. Not dirty, but "unclean." Tradition required them to wash their hands in a certain way to make them "ritually clean." Also, they might have touched something, and become "ritually...
_Then came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes._ SCRIBES AND PHARISEES COMING TO CHRIST I. When they came. When Gennesaret turned its heart toward Him. When diseased bodies ha...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 7:1 Conflict arises between the Pharisees and Jesus over the issue of true moral purity. ⇐ ⇔...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT INNER PURITY MATTHEW 15:1-20; MARK 7:1-23; MATTHEW 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Mar
_To eat with common, that is, with unwashen hands._ Hands unwashed were called _common_, because unclean and profane things were _common_ to both Jews and Gentiles, to clean and unclean persons alike....
CHAPTER 7 1 _The Pharisees find fault at the disciples for eating with unwashen hands_. 8 _They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men_. 14 _Meat defileth not the man_. 24 _He healeth t...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 7:3. OFT.—Literally, _with the fist_, hence _vigorously_. The idea is, that the Pharisees had inaugurated an elaborate and painstaking ceremonial, which was now ad...
EXPOSITION MARK 7:1, MARK 7:2 These verses, according to the Greek construction, should run thus: AND THERE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO THE PHARISEES, AND CERTAIN OF THE scribes, which had come from J...
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem (Mark 7:1). They came on up from Jerusalem to the area of Galilee. And when they saw some of his disci...
Acts 10:14; Acts 10:15; Acts 10:28; Daniel 6:4; Daniel 6:5;...
Defiled [κ ο ι ν α ι ς]. Lit., common; and so Rev. in margin, Wyc., and Tynd. That is. Added by way of explanation to Gentile readers. Oft [π υ γ μ η]. Rev., diligently. A word which has given critic...
(CF. LUKE 7:2-10)— Is there a mistake in the accounts concerning Jesus and the centurion? PROBLEM: Matthew seems to present the centurion as the one who seeks the help of Jesus (Matthew 8:5); but, Luk...