Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, (h) purging all meats?
(h) For that which goes into the draught purges all meats.
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, (h) purging all meats?
(h) For that which goes into the draught purges all meats.
MARK 7:19 kaqari,zwn {A} The overwhelming weight of manuscript evidence supports the reading kaqari,zwn. The difficulty of construing this word in the sentence 14 prompted copyists to attempt variou...
Verse 19. _INTO THE DRAUGHT_] Matthew 15:17, Matthew 15:17. _PURGING ALL MEATS?_] For what is separated from the different aliments taken into the stomach, and thrown out of the body, is the innutri...
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...
He called the crowd to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you and understand. There is nothing which goes into a man from outside which can render him unclean; but it is the things which come o...
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN (Mark 7:1-4)...
DRAUGHT. sewer. Syriac reads "digestive process". purging all meats. Supply the Ellipsis thus (being the Divine comment on the Lord's words): "[this He said], making all meats clean", as in Acts 10:15...
_into the draught_ Comp. 2 Kings 10:27, "And they.… brake down the house of Baal, and made it a _draughthouse_unto this day." Draught = _latrina, cloaca_, from Icel. _draf_, dregs, dirt, connected wit...
14–23. THE SOURCE OF REAL DEFILEMENT Matthew 15:10-20...
ΚΑΘΑΡΊΖΩΝ ([1452][1453][1454][1455][1456][1457][1458][1459][1460][1461][1462] and many cursives) rather than καθαρίζον ([1463][1464][1465][1466][1467][1468]), or καθαρίζει ([1469][1452] Codex Sinaitic...
Ver 14. And when he had called all the people unto Him, He said unto them, "Hearken unto Me every one of you, and understand: 15. There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile...
_WHAT REALLY DEFILES A PERSON MARK 7:14-23:_ The desire of Jesus was that the people would listen to and understand His teaching. The thing that defiles a person is not some dirt on their hands or fai...
ΚΟΙΛΊΑ (G2836) утроба, чрево, АΦΕΔΡΏΝ (G856) отхожее место, ΚΑΘΑΡΊΖΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΘΑΡΊΖΩ (G2511) чистить, объявлять чистым, ΒΡΏΜΑ (G1033) пища....
C. CONFLICT OVER THE SOURCE OF DEFILEMENT. 7:14-23 _TEXT 7:14-23_ And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: there is nothing from without the m...
_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...
6-7 Compare Isa_29:13. 6 The religious Jew delighted in forms and ceremonies, pious ejaculations and protracted prayers, yet at heart he was not vitally concerned with the things of God. No better te...
PURGING ALL MEATS] RV '_This he said,_ making all meats clean': see on Matthew 15:1....
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 7 CHAPTER 7:14-23 (Mark 7:14) THINGS WHICH DEFILE "And He called to Him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear Me all of you, and understand: there is nothing from without the man, th...
ὅτι οὐκ … εἰς τὴν καρδίαν : this negative statement is not in Mt. The contrast makes the point clearer. The idea throughout is that ethical defilement is alone of importance, all other defilement, whe...
_Conversation with the disciples_. εἰς οἶκον ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου = alone, apart from the crowd, at home, wherever the home, _pro tem_., might be. Whatever was said or done in public became habitually a subj...
_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...
TRUE RELIGION INTERNAL & SPIRITUAL Matthew 15:10-20; Mark 7:14-23. Matthew: “Calling the multitude to Him, He said to them, Hear and understand. Not that which cometh into the mouth defileth a man; bu...
(14) And when he had called all the people _unto him,_ he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one _of_ you, and understand: (15) There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile...
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...
BECAUSE IT ENTERETH NOT INTO HIS HEART,.... Which is the seat and fountain of all moral pollution; and if that is not defiled, no other part can be; and that that is not defiled by eating and drinking...
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? Ver. 19. _And goeth out into the draught_] Or into the long and lowermost gut, as physic...
_When he was entered into the house_ And was apart from the people; _his disciples asked him_ Namely, Peter, in the name of the rest, (Matthew 15:15,) _concerning the parable_ So they term the declara...
Traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. Matthew 15:1-20....
ENTERETH NOT INTO HIS HEART; does not reach or pollute the soul....
The explanation to the disciples:...
BECAUSE IT ENTERETH NOT INTO HIS HEART, BUT INTO THE BELLY, AND GOETH OUT INTO THE DRAUGHT, PURGING ALL MEATS?...
TITLE: Worms in the Apple TEXT: Mark 7:14-23 PROPOSITION: Many sins begin on the inside. QUESTION: Which? KEY WORD: Sins READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1. We often excuse sin - someone else led me astra...
14-23 Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrup...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 7:18...
Novation On the Jewish Meats wherein it was absolutely proved that they are ignorant of what is the true circumcision, and what the true Sabbath; and their ever increasing blindness is confuted in th...
Mark 7:19 because G3754 not G3756 enter G1531 (G5736) G1519 his G846 heart G2588 but G235 G
‘And he says to them, “Are you also so without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever from without goes into a man cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stom...
JESUS EXPLAINS HIS MEANING TO THE DISCIPLES (7:17-23). Once they were back in the house that they were staying at the disciples broached the question again and Jesus explained things in more depth to...
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...
Mark 7:19. MAKING ALL MEATS CLEAN. The general thought of Mark 7:18-19, is the same as that of Matthew 15:16-17, but besides the fuller form Mark gives, he inserts this new detail. The clause may be j...
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...
MAKING ALL MEATS CLEAN (καθαριζων παντα τα βρωματα). This anacoluthon can be understood by repeatingHE SAYS (λεγε) from verse Mark 7:18. The masculine participle agrees with Jesus, the speaker. Th...
BECAUSE IT ENTERETH Because it does not enter into the heart of him, but into the bowels is passed -- purifying all the food....
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...
_Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man._ THE TRUE SOURCE OF DEFILEMENT Having rebuked the scribes and Pharisees, our Lord addressed the people, and laid down a...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 7:19 DECLARED ALL FOODS CLEAN. The Mosaic ceremonial laws distinguished between “clean” and “unclean” foods (see Leviticus 11:1). The purpose of these laws was
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
_Because it entereth not into his heart_, _i.e._, into his soul, and cannot therefore defile it. _But goeth into the belly_, where the purer portion of the food, being separated, proceeds to the liver...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:13; Colossians 2:21; Colossians 2:22; Matthew 15:17...
Draught [α φ ε δ ρ ω ν α]. Liddell and Scott give only one definition - a privy, cloaca; and derive from edra, seat, breech, fundament. Compare English stool. The word does not refer to a part of the...
Purging all meats — Probably the seat was usually placed over running water....