Friday
Read Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23
7 Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law who had
come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus. 2They noticed that some of
his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean—that
is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should.
3 (For the Pharisees, as well as the
rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they
do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way; 4nor do
they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first.l
And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper
way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds.m )
5 So the Pharisees and the teachers
of the Law asked Jesus, “Why is it that your disciples do not follow the
teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean
hands?”
6 Jesus answered them, “How right
Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote:
‘These people, says God, honour me with their words,
but their heart is really far away from me.
7It is no use for them to worship me,
because they teach human rules
as though they were God’s laws!’
8 “You put aside God’s command and
obey human teachings.”
14 Then Jesus called the crowd to
him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. 15There
is nothing that goes into a person from the outside which can make him ritually
unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.”
21For from the inside, from a person’s heart, come the evil
ideas which lead him to do immoral things, to rob, kill, 22commit
adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency,
jealousy, slander, pride, and folly- 23all these evil things come
from inside a person and make him unclean.”
Think
The Pharisees noticed what Jesus and his disciples did and did not do -
and they judged them for it.
We often do that to people - even though we shouldn't.
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