Within a radius of 15 or 20 miles they were supreme. He could not be hid; for, though a candle may be put under a bushel, the sun cannot. In the Mishnah there are no fewer than twelve treatises on this kind of uncleanness. Ethical religion was buried under a mass of taboos and rules. [10] By addressing Jesus as Lord, she accepts that she is a dog. In contrast to most of the Jews, she recognized Jesus authority and understood her true position as well as her dependence upon His mercy. Have not I the Lord? Start for FREE. (The effect of this saying is to render all foods clean.) II. Herod regarded him as a menace. THE FORECAST OF A WORLD FOR CHRIST (Mark 7:24-30) . The passage culminates in Peter's confession of faith, "You are the Messiah" (8:29). Immediately he stopped, spread out his prayer mat, knelt, said his prayer as fast as he could; then rose and continued his murderous pursuit. Christ speaks as one having authority, and power went along with the word. Mark 7:28-29 (NASB) But she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs." 29 And He said to her, "Because of . (1-5) Religious leaders from Jerusalem come to find fault and to ask questions about the failure of the disciples to observe ceremonial washings. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. The commandment of God was that the claim of human love should come first; the commandment of the scribes was that the claim of legal rules and regulations should come first. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. All these evil things come from within, and they render a man unclean.". (2.) Verses 1, 2. Jesus was attacking a system which put rules and regulations before the claim of human need. Rabbi Joshua ben Levi had a parable. In the end Sidon lost her trade and her greatness to Tyre and sank into a demoralised degeneracy. We use cookies to provide you with the best possible experience on our website. It describes, not the man who is a brainless fool, but the man who chooses to play the fool. We should take pleasure in doing good, but not in its being known. Verse 30 is anticlimactic in Mark 7:24-30, whose interest lies in the thrust and parry between Jesus and the woman in 7:27-29. Or, he would not be known, because he was upon the borders of Tyre and Sidon, among Gentiles, to whom he would not be so forward to show himself as to the tribes of Israel, whose glory he was to be. (ii) But there is more to it than that. If we understand the spiritual nature of God and of his law, and what it is that is offensive to him, and disfits us for communion with him, we shall soon perceive, [1.] There Isaiah accused the people of his day of honouring God with their lips while their hearts were really far away. From then on the debtor ceased to be in debt to a fellow-man and began to be in debt to God, which was far more serious. A deaf person knows he cannot hear; and when someone in a crowd shouts at him and tries to make him hear, in his excitement he becomes all the more helpless. The word elders does not mean, in this phrase, the officials of the synagogue; rather it means the ancients, the great legal experts of the old days, like Hillel and Shammai. [5] That that which we eat and drink cannot defile us, so as to call for any religious washing; it goes into the stomach, and passes the several digestions and secretions that nature has appointed, and what there may be in it that is defiling is voided and gone; meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. (i) The word meant a gift. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. The word hupokrites ( G5273) has an interesting and revealing history. Thirdly, Deceit; which is wickedness covered and disguised, that it may be the more securely and effectually committed. This was nothing that looked like spell or charm, such as they used, who had familiar spirits, who peeped and muttered, Isa 8 19. It is that which comes out from the heart, the corrupt heart, that defiles us. The same word can be a deadly insult and an affectionate address, according to the tone of voice. I ask not for a loaf, no, nor for a morsel, only for a crumb; do not refuse me that. This she speaks, not as undervaluing the mercy, or making light of it in itself, but magnifying the abundance or miraculous cures with which she heard the Jews were feasted, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. The vow which the scribal legalist insisted upon involved breaking one of the ten commandments which are the very law of God. He saw the blessings of God which the Gentiles enjoy; he asked, "If the Gentiles without the law enjoy blessings like that, how many more blessings will Israel, the people of God, enjoy?" The great command of the gospel, and grace of Christ to poor sinners, is Ephphatha-Be opened. It was very particular; she tells him what she wanted. But if a man will but conform himself in all points to the tradition of the elders, they will find him out an expedient by which he may be discharged from this obligation, v. 11. "It is like a king who made a feast and brought in the guests and placed them at the door of his palace. Genuine faith provides courage and hope to men and women when they approach and make requests of God. But Jesus words should not be seen as a pleasant response, and His seeming initial rejection of the woman should not be dismissed. [6] Amy-Jill Levine, A.-J, ed., A Feminist Companion to Mark, A Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings 2 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), 102. Jeremy Taylor defined this poneria ( G4189) as "aptness to do shrewd turns, to delight in mischiefs and tragedies; loving to trouble our neighbour, and to do him ill offices; crossness, perverseness and peevishness of action in our intercourse." [8] Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002), 145. It is crafty, cunning, deceitful, clever treachery. The question asked was, Why do Jesus and his disciples not observe the tradition of the elders? He was going from Tyre in the north to Galilee in the south; and he started by going to Sidon. It is in face of this that Jesus made his revolutionary statement that nothing that goes into a man can make him unclean. [5] To speak to Jesus, she had to break every cultural barrier of the day. Christs saying that is was done, did it effectually, as at other times his saying, Let it be done; for (Mark 7:30) she came to her house, depending upon the word of Christ, that her daughter was healed, and so she found it, the devil was gone out. 36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. Church-going, bible-reading, careful financial giving, even time-tabled prayer do not make a man a good man. Note, Christ can conquer Satan at a distance; and it was not only when the demoniacs saw him, that they yielded to his power (as ch. Legalism takes account of a man's outward actions; but it takes no account at all of his inward feelings. 3. "Commentary on Mark 7". As Tyndale vividly translates it the man was "deffe and stambed in his speech." II. First, they already made up their mind about Jesus. Now it is true that the Pentateuch contains a certain number of detailed regulations and instructions; but, in the matter of moral questions, what is laid down is a series of great moral principles which a man must interpret and apply for himself. She is a Gentile, "a Greek" (Romans 1:16; Galatians 3:28). 4. No Jew ever believed that and no orthodox Jew believes it yet. CHILDREN AND LITTLE DOGS Mark 7:24 - Mark 7:30. The whole story shows us most vividly that Jesus did not consider the man merely a case; he considered him as an individual the man had a special need and a special problem, and with the most tender considerateness Jesus dealt with him in a way that spared his feelings and in a way that he could understand. So the woman said, "I know the children are fed first, but can't I even get the scraps the children throw away?" His answer was that it was not right to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. Certainly, it was an act of placing herself at His mercy. Our Lord desired to withdraw from the excited crowds who were flocking after Him as a mere miracle-worker and from the hostile espionage of emissaries of the Pharisees, 'which had come from Jerusalem.' Therefore He sought seclusion in heathen territory. He also hereby directed his patient who could see, though he could not hear, to look up to heaven for relief. The grant Christ thereupon made of her request. How, then, are we to explain Jesus' use of it here? No wonder the disciples were amazed. In the religious sense Jesus and these people spoke different languages. And he made the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. Note, It is the mischief of impositions, that too often they who are zealous for them, have little zeal for the essential duties of religion, but can contentedly see them laid aside. For this saying, Go thy way, thou shalt have what thou camest for, the devil is gone out of thy daughter, v. 29. His cure was solemn, and some of the circumstances of it were singular. (ii) The second accusation that Jesus implicitly levelled against these legalists was that they substituted the efforts of human ingenuity for the laws of God. Find answers to your Bible questions with Bible Gateway Plus. This encourages us to pray and not to faint, to continue instant in prayer, not doubting but to prevail at last; the vision at the end shall speak, and not lie. It begins by meaning simply one who answers; it goes on to mean one who answers in a set dialogue or a set conversation, that is to say an actor; and finally it means, not simply an actor on the stage, but one whose whole life is a piece of acting without any sincerity behind it at all. * [7:24-37] The withdrawal of Jesus to the district of Tyre may have been for a respite , but he soon moved onward to Sidon and, by way of the Sea of Galilee, to the Decapolis. Isa. Beginning with the Feeding of the Five Thousand (6:30-44), Mark relates a series of miracles, including the restoration of the deaf man's hearing and speech (7:31-37) and a blind man's sight (8:22-26). To the scribes and Pharisees these rules and regulations were the essence of religion. But they meant honestly, and therefore it is to be reckoned rather an act of indiscretion than an act of disobedience, v. 36. SINGAPORE: Trust Bank, the digital bank launched by Standard Chartered and FairPrice Group in September last year, has attracted more than S$1 billion (US$739 million) in . Seventhly, Foolishnessaphrosyne; imprudence, inconsideration; some understand it especially of vainglorious boasting, which St. Paul calls foolishness (2 Cor 11 1, 19), because it is here joined with pride; I rather take it for that rashness in speaking and acting, which is the cause of so much evil. Gentiles do not come in crowds, as the Jews do; I come alone. Originally, for the Jew, the Law meant two things; it meant, first and foremost, the Ten Commandments, and, second, the first five books of the Old Testament, or, as they are called, the Pentateuch. He doth not expect they should understand every thing; "But are ye so weak as not to understand this?" In the very next chapter Peter makes the great discovery that Jesus is the Christ ( Mark 8:27-29), and it may well be that it was in this long, lonely time together that this impression became a certainty in Peter's heart. Do you not understand that everything that goes into a man from outside cannot render him unclean, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and it is then evacuated from him by natural bodily processes?" The Trojans opened their gates and took it in. Try it free today. Christ never put any from him, that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do, that has not boldness and confidence to throw itself into his arms. These districts provided a Gentile setting for the extension of his ministry of healing because the people there acknowledged his power ( Mk 7:29 , 37 ). It is by the breaking out of the corruption that is in our hearts; the mind and conscience are defiled, guilt is contracted, and we become odious in the sight of God by that which comes out of us; our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, these defile us, and these only. Then comes covetous deeds (pleonexiai, G4124) . Ask us! How graciously he was pleased to manifest himself, notwithstanding. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? The application made to him by a poor woman in distress and trouble. But he went on to say, "What comes out of a man, that is what renders the man unclean. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. But, Why do not they walk according to the tradition of the elders? Jesus entrance into Gentile lands and His interaction with a Gentile woman is a turning point in Marks Gospel. It was a Gentile territory with a long history of animosity towards Israel. The woman was a Greek, and the Greeks had a gift of repartee; and she saw at once that Jesus was speaking with a smile. 1 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. Note, Corrupt customs are best cured by rectifying corrupt notions. Jesus needed this long time with his men before the strain and tension of the approaching end. 6. It must always come, not from a man's ingenious discoveries, but from the simple listening to and accepting the voice of God. The fundamental question is, how is a man's heart towards God and towards his fellow-men? (i) He took the man aside from the crowd, all by himself. Mark 6:31; Mark 6:46; Mark 7:17; Mark 7:24; Mark 9:2; Mark 11:19). The creditor might then say, "The debt you owe me is Korban ( G2878) ," that is to say, "The debt you owe me is dedicated to God." Outwardly they looked to the sea; inland they looked to Damascus; and the ships of the sea and the caravans of many lands flowed into them. The exact meaning of this passage is very difficult to discover. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. When they should have been pressing upon people the great principles of religion, they were enforcing the canons of their church, and judged of people's being Jews or no, according as they did, or did not, conform to them, without any consideration had, whether they lived in obedience to God's laws or no. It was requisite that this part of his discourse should be public, for it related to daily practice, and was designed to rectify a great mistake which the people were led into by their elders; he therefore called the people unto him (v. 14), and bid them hear and understand. A flat plate without a rim could not become unclean at all; but a plate with a rim could. Envy is literally the evil eye, the eye that looks on the success and happiness of another in such a way that it would cast an evil spell upon it if it could. This was new doctrine and shatteringly new doctrine. It should seem that the scribes and Pharisees at Jerusalem pretended not only to a pre-eminence above, but to an authority over, the country clergy, and therefore kept up their visitations and sent inquisitors among them, as they did to John when he appeared, John 1 19. Its name means The Rock. There is a story of a Mohammedan who was pursuing a man with upraised knife to murder him. He has shown how rigid adherence to the traditional law can actually mean disobedience to the law of God. The offence which the Pharisees took at this; They found fault (v. 2); they censured them as profane, and men of a loose conversation, or rather as men that would not submit to the power of the church, to decree rites and ceremonies, and were therefore rebellious, factious, and schismatical. It was so called because off the shore lay two great rocks joined by a three-thousand-feet-long ridge. But here he says something more startling yet. One of the things he demanded was that the Jews should eat pork, swine's flesh but they died in their hundreds rather than do so. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4 and when they come from the ma. But almost certainly the text is correct as it stands. His curing of the woman Canaan's daughter that was possessed, ver 24-30. "William Barclay's Daily . He do fairly disannul and abolish the commandment of God; and even by your traditions make the word of God of no effect, v. 13. Mark emphasizes her uncleanness by the two-step progression of her description in verse 26: now the woman was a Gentile, Syrophenician by birthone of the worst of all pagans. As one scholar has put it, it would be like going from London to Cornwall via Manchester; or like going from Glasgow to Edinburgh via Perth. He begins with evil designs (dialogismoi, G1261) . ( James 4:6.). 2. Secondly, Wickednessponeriai; malice, hatred, and ill-will, a desire to do mischief, and a delight in mischief done. 6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But the horse was filled with Greeks who in the night broke out and dealt death and devastation to Troy. But the Phoenician sailors will always be famous as the men who first found their way by following the stars. That is why it has been called "the peak of all the vices," and why "God opposes the proud." Vincent's Word Studies. How Should Missionaries and Mission Agencies Think About Theological Education? They added to this the washing of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, which they suspected had been made use of by heathens, or persons polluted; nay, and the very tables on which they ate their meat. What was this tradition, and what was its moving spirit? This she speaks, not as undervaluing the mercy, or making light of it in itself, but magnifying the abundance or miraculous cures with which she heard the Jews were feasted, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Tyre and Sidon were cities of Phoenicia, which was a part of Syria. Just as the Jew would never soil his lips with forbidden foods, so he would never soil his life by contact with the unclean Gentile. Nay, they rejected the commandment of God, v. 9. If that be the use here, the passage means that, at some time, perhaps in a fit of anger or rebellion, a man had said to his parents, "Korban ( G2878) anything by which you may ever be helped by me," and that afterwards, even if he repented from his rash vow, the scribal legalists declared that it was unbreakable and that he might never again render his parents any assistance. Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known; and there he entered, not into a synagogue, or place of concourse, but into a private house, and he would have no man to know it; because it was foretold concerning him, He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall his voice be heard in the streets. Part 3. They were not content with great moral principles; they had what can only be called a passion for definition. Some truths prove themselves, if they be but rightly explained and apprehended. 31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. Her address was, (1.) [ a] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. They said that the Giants, the sons of Tartarus and Ge, in their pride sought to storm heaven and were cast down by Hercules. They saw the dogs come out, with pheasants, and heads of fatted birds, and calves in their mouths. Are ye so dull?" He concludes, Any many such like things do ye. In Greek there are two words for a robber--kleptes ( G2812) and lestes ( G3027) . Note, Christ can conquer Satan at a distance; and it was not only when the demoniacs saw him, that they yielded to his power (as Mark 3:11), but when they saw him not, for the Spirit of the Lord is not bound, nor bounded. This story begins by describing what is on the face of it an amazing journey. The application made to him by a poor woman in distress and trouble. (2.) Unconventionally for a woman in antiquity, she approaches Jesus for her daughter's exorcism. (2.) (1.) In any event, to introduce the idea of Korban ( G2878) into this kind of debt was a kind of religious blackmail transforming a debt owed to man into a debt owed to God. It means insulting man or God. No matter how you look at it, the term dog is an insult. II. COMMENTARIES THAT CAN BE BORROWED FROM ARCHIVE.ORG Explanation - The following list includes not only commentaries but other Christian works by well known evangelical writers. EXEGESIS: MARK 6-8. 7:24-30 He left there and went away into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. The last verses of the passage deal further with this conception of uncleanness. Nowadays we would talk rather of things being tabu than of being unclean. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. [3] R.T. France, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary on the Greek Text. The Scribes and Pharisees accused the disciples of Jesus of eating with unclean hands. it is from within, from the heart, that there come evil designs, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetous deeds, evil deeds, guile, wanton wickedness, envy, slander, pride, folly. How very seriously this was taken can be seen from many an incident in Maccabean times. For instance, a creditor might have a debtor who refused or was unwilling to pay. Next come fornications (porneiai, G4202) ; later he is to list acts of adultery (moicheiai, G3430) ; but this first word is a wide word--it means every kind of traffic in sexual vice. When Jesus came, bringing healing to men's bodies and salvation to their souls, he had begun the work of creation all over again. The apostles went by this rule, Let the children first be filled, let the Jews have the first offer; and if their full souls loathe this honeycomb, Lo, we turn to the Gentiles! In those days people believed that spittle had a curative quality. NASB Now Jesus got up and went from there to the region of Tyre. All this, in effect, Isaiah prophesied of them; what he said of the hypocrites of his own day, was applicable to the scribes and Pharisees, v. 6. He put his hands in the man's ears and touched his tongue with spittle. But, (2.) The dog was not the well-loved guardian that it is to-day; more commonly it was a symbol of dishonour. Fourthly, Lasciviousness; that filthiness and foolish talking which the apostle condemns; the eye full of adultery, and all wanton dalliances. It was precisely because he had no use for all these regulations that they considered him a bad man. "True, sir," she answered, "but even the dogs below the table eat some of the bits of bread that the children throw away." The worst of men, the man who is doing Satan's work, is the man who, being bad himself, makes others as bad as himself. First, let us look at the geography of the incident. II. [9] The harshness of the comment is lessened and a hint of compassion is seen by the term Jesus used, for it means little dogsthose that were allowed to enter a house and eat scraps from the table, distinct from a dog of the street or farm. How humbly Christ was pleased to conceal himself. If they were unclean they must be broken; and the break must be a hole at least big enough for a medium-sized pomegranate to pass through. Tweet your question to @biblemesh with the hashtag #BibleQA or email us. Thus a wooden key with metal teeth could become unclean; but a metal key with wooden teeth could not. Note, As there is a time to appear, so there is a time to retire. Ordinarily, he wrought his miracles publicly before all the people, to show that they would bear the strictest scrutiny and inspection; but this he did privately, to show that he did not seek his own glory, and to teach us to avoid every thing that savours of ostentation. Does John 12:25 Teach That We Must Hate Our Lives? 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 25 In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. He has shown the irrelevance of the elaborate handwashings. 7:14-23 He called the crowd to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you and understand. . Kleptes ( G2812) is a thief; Judas was a kleptes ( G2812) when he pilfered from the box ( John 12:6). So, then, when a strict Jew returned from the market place he immersed his whole body in clean water to take away the taint he might have acquired. For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother.' So, next, the hands had to be held with finger tips pointing downwards and water had to be poured over them in such a way that it began at the wrists and ran off at the finger tips. They wanted these great principles amplified, expanded, broken down until they issued in thousands and thousands of little rules and regulations governing every possible action and every possible situation in life. It was demanded that they should eat swine's flesh. Bread eaten with unclean hands was not better than excrement. He instructs the people concerning the principles upon which this ceremony was grounded. Let us take occasion from hence to give thanks to God for preserving to us the sense of hearing, especially that we may be capable of hearing the word of God; and the faculty of speech, especially that we may be capable of speaking God's praises; and let us look with compassion upon those that are deaf or dumb, and treat them with great tenderness. First, he said, the children must be fed; but only first; there is meat left for the household pets. NIGTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 297. Or, he would not be known, because he was upon the borders of Tyre and Sidon, among Gentiles, to whom he would not be so forward to show himself as to the tribes of Israel, whose glory he was to be. Note, As there is a time to appear, so there is a time to retire. It is a truly terrible list which Jesus cites of the things that come from the human heart. I. b. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. [1] John Calvin, Harmony of the Gospels. Part 4. He had better be tongue-tied still, unless he have grace to keep his mouth as with a bridle, Ps 39 1. The water for washing had to be kept in special large stone jars, so that it itself was clean in the ceremonial sense and so that it might be certain that it had been used for no other purpose, and that nothing had fallen into it or had been mixed with it. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. The man who is poneros ( G4190) is the man in whose heart there is the desire to harm. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. Sometimes, of course, the pride is evident. III. The reason is this--he believes that he is a good man if he carries out the correct acts and practices, no matter what his heart and his thoughts are like. Bible > Commentaries > Mark 7:29 . These rules and regulations were not written down until long after the time of Jesus. ( Mark 8:27-29), and it may well be that it was in this long, lonely time together that this impression became a certainty in Peter's heart. IV. The Papists pretend to a zeal for the authority and antiquity of the church and its canons, and talk much of councils and fathers, when really it is nothing but a zeal for their own wealth, interest, and dominion, that governs them; and so it was with the Pharisees. she thus humble, thus earnest? Revised Common Lectionary View Bible Text Commentary on Mark 7:24-37 Matt Skinner Now here's a Gospel reading capable of kicking off a church's new program year with gusto. Fourth Maccabees (chapter 7) tells the story of a widow and her seven sons. The hands, to begin with, had to be free of any coating of sand or mortar or gravel or any such substance. To cure uncleanness earthen vessels must be broken; other vessels must be immersed, boiled, purged with fire--in the case of metal vessels--and polished. That is none other than the verdict of God upon his own creation in the very beginning ( Genesis 1:31). He said, Ephphatha; that is, Be opened. To the Jew it was equally a term of contempt. The Greeks defined aselgeia ( G766) as "a disposition of soul that resents all discipline," as "a spirit that acknowledges no restraints, dares whatsoever its caprice and wanton insolence may suggest." Holland's translation.) Nothing that prevents us helping a fellowman can ever be a rule approved by God. 70. His case was sad, v. 32. Both builders hear God's Word. That they defile the man; they render a man unfit for communion with God, they bring a stain upon the conscience; and, if not mortified and rooted out, will shut men out of the new Jerusalem, into which no unclean thing shall enter. 3. Things made of metal could become unclean, except a door, a bolt, a lock, a hinge, a knocker and a gutter. For their guidance for life they did not depend on listening to God; they depended on listening to the clever arguments and debates, the fine-spun niceties, the ingenious interpretations of the legal experts. FURTHER WORK IN THE NORTH. The Greek word literally means "showing oneself above." And as to this man, he sighed, not because he was loth to do him this kindness, or did it with reluctancy; but because of the many temptations which he would be exposed to, and the sins he would be in danger of, the tongue-sins, after the restoring of his speech to him, which before he was free from. In those days people did not have either knives or forks or table-napkins. What does she want? Note, When we see, and complain of, the wickedness of the present times, yet we do not enquire wisely of that matter, if we say that all the former days were better than these, Eccl 7 10. It was a specimen of the operations of his gospel upon the minds of men. 1. One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God's making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it. They asked him, when they had him by himself, concerning the parable (v. 17); for to them, it seems, it was a parable. Note, The greatest blessing we can ask of Christ for our children is, that he would break the power of Satan, that is, the power of sin, in their souls; and particularly, that he would cast forth the unclean spirit, that they may be temples of the Holy Ghost, and he may dwell in them. How Should Missionaries and Mission Agencies Think About Theological Education? II. 26 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. 2. What Does the Bible Have to Say about Weed? He thrust his fingers into his ears, and spat, and touched his tongue. [4] Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, 217. It describes the attitude of the man "who has a certain contempt for everyone except himself." Plato said, "The desire of man is like a sieve or pierced vessel which he ever tries to, and can never fill." There is a fundamental cleavage here--the cleavage between the man who sees religion as ritual, ceremonial, rules and regulations, and the man who sees in religion loving God and loving his fellow-men. Poneriai ( G4189) is the word used here. To do so he carries his prayer mat; wherever he is, he will unroll the mat, fall upon his knees, say his prayers and then go on. An evil man may hide his sin, but the man who has aselgeia ( G766) sins without a qualm and never hesitates to shock his fellow-men. If we take some actual examples we will see how far this went. These eager imposers of such ceremonies, at first only made light of God's commandments in comparison with their traditions, but afterward made void God's commandments, if they stood in competition with them. She was a Gentile, a Greek, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, an alien to the covenant of promise; she was by extraction a Syrophenician, and not in any degree proselyted to the Jewish religion; she had a daughter, a young daughter, that was possessed with the devil. In some ways it is more embarrassing to be deaf than it is to be blind. II, Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30, Calvins Commentaries Website, http://www.biblestudyguide.org/comment/calvin/comm_vol32/htm/xlviii.htm. II. Although the Phoenician cities were part of Syria, they were all independent, and they were all rivals. A tired and exhausted Jesus seeks solitude. [4] The woman who comes to Jesus for the healing of her demon-possessed daughter is an "unclean" Gentile. 1. Only persons can be really defiled; and what defiles a person is his own actions, which are the product of his own heart. Before every meal, and between each of the courses, the hands had to be washed, and they had to be washed in a certain way. "Whosoever eats the bread over which they recite the benediction, Blessed be he that produceth bread, must wash his hands before and after," or else he was thought to be defiled. Jesus looked up to heaven to show that it was from God that help was to come. The devout Mohammedan must pray to God a certain number of times each day. That is huperephania ( G5243) . Matthew 7:24-27. This he gives them a particular instance of, and a flagrant oneGod commanded children to honour their parents, not only by the law of Moses, but, antecedent to that, by the law of nature; and whoso revileth, or speaketh evil of, father or mother, let him die the death, v. 10. There is no miracle which so beautifully shows Jesus' way of treating people. It is not said, They besought him to cure him, but to put his hand upon him, to take cognizance of his case, and put forth his power to do to him as he pleased. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. But you say, that, if a man says to his father or mother, 'That by which you might have been helped by me is Korban,'--that is to say, God-dedicated--you no longer allow him to do anything for his father and mother, and you thereby render invalid the word of God by your tradition which you hand on. Gentiles do not come in crowds, as the Jews do; I come alone. That is to say, it was completely set apart from all ordinary purposes and usages and became the property of God. Pleonexia ( G4124) is that lust for having which is in the heart of the man who sees happiness in things instead of in God. Can it be that here, in symbol, we have him wiping out the difference between clean and unclean people? I. There is no greater religious peril than that of identifying religion with outward observance. In Greek there are two words for evil--kakos ( G2560) , which describes a thing which in itself is evil, and poneros ( G4190) , which describes a person or a thing which is actively evil. The next passage will develop this; but it is clear that Jesus' idea of religion and that of the scribes and Pharisees had nothing in common at all. She said, "Yes, Lord, I own it is true that the children's bread ought not to be cast to the dogs; but they were never denied the crumbs of that bread, nay it belongs to them, and they are allowed a place under the table, that they may be ready to receive them. Here was a sunny faith that would not take no for an answer, here was a woman with the tragedy of an ill daughter at home, and there was still light enough in her heart to reply with a smile. But in the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ there came into being a class of legal experts whom we know as the Scribes. James, whose epistle many believe is a practical commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, said this: "But be sure you live out . This was their idea of goodness and of the service of God. [2] J.R. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 217. Moses with his stammering tongue is directed to look that way (Exod 4 11); Who hath made man's mouth? The difference and the argument between Jesus and the Pharisees and the experts in the law, which this chapter relates, are of tremendous importance, for they show us the very essence and core of the divergence between Jesus and the orthodox Jew of his time. He enjoined them to tell no one; but the more he enjoined them the more exceedingly they proclaimed the story of what he had done. ( Matthew 7:6; compare Php_3:2 ; Revelation 22:15. Matthew 7:21-29 (NET) . [3] From a Jewish perspective, the region represented the most extreme expression of paganism.[4]. He explains this truth to them, that they might perceive it, and then they would believe it, for it carried its own evidence along with it. If his parents be in want and he has wherewithal to help them, but has no mind to do it, let him swear by the Corban, that is, by the gold of the temple, and the gift upon the altar, that his parents shall not be profited by him, that he will not relieve them; and, if they ask any thing of him, let him tell them this, and it is enough; as if by the obligation of this wicked vow he had discharged himself from the obligation of God's holy law; thus Dr. Hammond understands it: and it is said to be an ancient canon of the rabbin, That vows take place in things commanded by the law, as well as in things indifferent; so that, if a man make a vow which cannot be ratified without breaking a commandment, the vow must be ratified, and the commandment violated; so Dr. Whitby. They were all amazed beyond measure. The people of Nazareth treated him with scandalized dislike. The scribes and Pharisees saw that the disciples of Jesus did not observe the niceties of the tradition and the code of the oral law in regard to the washing of hands before and during meals, and they asked why. Now that which he goes about to set them right in, is, what the pollution is, which we are in danger of being damaged by, v. 15. The Greeks had a legend of this pride. Then the guests began to say, 'If it be thus with the dogs, how much more luxurious will the meal itself be.' 17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. Let us look at the things Jesus lists as coming from the heart and making a man unclean. He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak; and that is well, it is well for them, it is well for their relations, to whom they had been a burthen; and therefore they are inexcusable who speak ill of him. The church needs this Gentile womens example in an era characterized by a lack of genuine faith. The vow was made an excuse to avoid helping a parent in need. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. They evaluated Him against the measure of their religious traditions. Christ was too well known to be long incognitohid, any where; the oil of gladness which he was anointed with, like ointment of the right hand, would betray itself, and fill the house with its odours. Every outward act of sin is preceded by an inward act of choice; therefore Jesus begins with the evil thought from which the evil action comes. To which it was easy to answer, that, by receiving the doctrine of Christ, they had more understanding than all their teachers, yea more than the ancients, Ps 119 99, 100. THE FORECAST OF A WORLD FOR CHRIST ( Mark 7:24-30 ). That is what the phrase about using the fist means; the fist of one hand was rubbed into the palm and against the surface of the other. Mark emphasizes her "uncleanness" by the two-step progression of her description in verse 26: "now the woman was a Gentile, Syrophenician by birth"one of the worst of all pagans. See here, I. A Rabbi who once omitted the ceremony was buried in excommunication. Second, they did not evaluate Jesus against the measure of God's Word. (i) So, then, the first tremendous thing which meets us is that Jesus is in Gentile territory. What the practice of Christ's disciples was; they knew what the law was, and the common usage; but they understood themselves so well that they would not be bound up by it: they ate bread with defiled, that is, with unwashen, hands, v. 2. Though he would not carry a harvest of miraculous cures into those parts, yet, it should seem, he came on purpose to drop a handful, to let fall this one which we have here an account of. It is the forecast of the whole history of Christianity. That is to say, he started going due south by going due north! Note, Where Christ knows the faith of poor supplicants to be strong, he sometimes delights to try it, and put it to the stretch. While the hands were still wet each hand had to be cleansed with the fist of the other. Many claim to know much about doctrine, and many view certain doctrinal distinctions as barriers to true faith. He could not be hid; for, though a candle may be put under a bushel, the sun cannot. "Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing. It was his humility, that he charged them they should tell no man, v. 36. Those that had only heard his fame, could not converse with him, but they would soon say, "This must be Jesus." If it became unclean it must be broken; and no unbroken piece must remain which was big enough to hold enough oil to anoint the little toe. 25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. They refused. He opens the heart, as he did Lydia's, and thereby opens the ear to receive the word of God, and opens the mouth in prayer and praises. The man who ate with unclean hands was subject to the attacks of a demon called Shibta. 4. Jesus took the sting out of the word. When we examine it a shudder surely passes over us. 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 him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. He reproves them for laying aside the commandment of God, and overlooking that, not urging that in their preaching, and in their discipline conniving at the violation of that, as if that were no longer of force, v. 8. different aspects of the traditional law. Like Tyre it had a natural breakwater, and its origin as a harbour and a city was so ancient that no man knew who had founded it. NIV Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He was wiping out at one stroke the laws for which Jews had suffered and died. The great characteristic of the man who is guilty of aselgeia ( G766) is that he is lost to decency and to shame. Bridgeway Bible Commentary. 16 Mark 7 - Declaring Food and People Clean Audio for Mark 7: Mark 7:1-23 - When a Rite is Wrong Mark 7:24-8:10 - Faith and Humility A. A proof of Christ's being the Messiah; for it was foretold that by his power the ears of the deaf should be unstopped, and the tongue of the dumb should be made to sing, Isa 35 5, 6. [5] Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, 218. A kleptes ( G2812) is a mean, deceitful, dishonourable pilferer, without even the redeeming quality of a certain audacious gallantry that a brigand must have. Not by the meat we eat, though it be eaten with unwashen hands; that is but from without, and goes through a man. Here is the most tender considerateness. Are ye dull also, as dull as the people that cannot understand, as dull as the Pharisees that will not? Now observe. Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known; and there he entered, not into a synagogue, or place of concourse, but into a private house, and he would have no man to know it; because it was foretold concerning him, He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall his voice be heard in the streets. Most men will proclaim their own goodness, or, at least, desire that others should proclaim it; but Christ, though he was himself in no danger of being puffed up with it, knowing that we are, would thus set us an example of self-denial, as in other things, so especially in praise and applause. These Pharisees and scribes with whom he had this argument, are said to come from Jerusalem down to Galileefourscore or a hundred miles, to pick quarrels with our Saviour there, where they supposed him to have the greatest interest and reputation. He said to her, "First of all you must let the children eat their fill; it is not right to take the bread that belongs to the children and to throw it to the dogs." Though he would not carry a harvest of miraculous cures into those parts, yet, it should seem, he came on purpose to drop a handful, to let fall this one which we have here an account of. Now, in answer to their enquiry, (1.) Obviously vessels could easily become unclean; they might be touched by an unclean person or by unclean food. They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with hands which were ceremonially unclean, that is to say hands which had not undergone the prescribed washings; for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, who hold to the traditions of the ciders, do not eat unless they wash their hands, using the fist as the law prescribes; and when they come in from the market-place they do not eat unless they immerse their whole bodies; and there are many other traditions which they observe which relate to the prescribed washings of cups and pitchers and vessels of bronze. How many and grievous are the calamities that young children are subject to! Long ago the scribes and Pharisees had branded him as a sinner because he broke through their rules and regulations. 1. and would have no man know it; took all proper precaution as man, that nobody should know who, and where he was; that the, Gentiles, on whose borders he was, might not flock to him, which would create envy and disgust in the Jews: but he could not be hid; You do many things like that.". This is what our passage means by the washings of cups and pitchers and vessels of bronze. If vessels made with leather, bone or glass were flat they could not contract uncleanness at all; if they were hollow they could become unclean outside and inside. As by the ceremonial law, whatsoever (almost) comes out of a man, defiles him (Lev 15 2; Deut 23 13), so what comes out from the mind of a man is that which defiles him before God, and calls for a religious washing (v. 21); From within, out of the heart of men, which they boast of the goodness of, and think is the best part of them, thence that which defiles proceeds, thence comes all the mischief. 3. What Does a Wife of Noble Character Look Like? [6] The fact she had a daughter with a demon extenuated the uncleanness.[7] It is a wonder she had the audacity and courage to seek out and address Jesus, but she did. How did the woman hear about him? They took special care, when they came in from the markets, to wash their hands; from the judgment-halls, so some; it signifies any place of concourse where there were people of all sorts, and, it might be supposed, some heathen or Jews under a ceremonial pollution, by coming near to whom they thought themselves polluted; saying, Stand by thyself, come not near me, I am holier than thou, Isa 65 5. Bible Commentaries John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Mark Mark 7 Mark 7 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. If one human invention and institution be admitted, though seemingly ever so innocent, as this of washing hands, behold, a troop comes, a door is opened for many other such things. The earthly Israel had failed to gather in the people of Phoenicia; now the true Israel had come upon them. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so doth a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all those wicked words and actions which are produced by them. 4. In principle Jesus accused the scribes and Pharisees of two things. Note, Superstition is an endless thing. ), The word dog was in fact sometimes a Jewish term of contempt for the Gentiles. Note, Those that would obtain mercy from Christ, must throw themselves at his feet; must refer themselves to him, humble themselves before him, and give up themselves to be ruled by him. (Mark 4:26-29) Call to Watchfulness . We have taken some time over these scribal laws, this tradition of the elders, because that is what Jesus was up against. The sharpness of Jesus response to the woman is not what the reader may expect. Or, he might say, "Korban ( G2878) that by which you might be profited by me," and, in so saying, he bound himself never to help or to benefit the person so addressed by anything that belonged to himself. The Delhi High Court dismisses a plea challenging the permission to exchange Rs 2,000 currency notes without requisition slip, ID proof. Hence it is easy to infer, that it is the duty of children, if their parents be poor, to relieve them, according to their ability; and if those children are worthy to die, that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. To the Greek, the word dog meant a shameless and audacious woman; it was used exactly with the connotation that we use the word bitch to-day. Note, It is not enough for the common people to hear, but they must understand what they hear. III. This so-called reverence of men is an empty thing, for they teach as doctrine human rules and regulations.' . Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). He said to them, "Isaiah did well when he prophesied about you hypocrites, as it stands written, 'This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. A man might say, "Korban ( G2878) that by which I might be profited by you," and, in so doing, he bound himself never to touch, taste, have or handle anything possessed by the person so addressed. Suetonius, the Roman historian, tells of an incident in the life of Vespasian, the Emperor. Just then the call to prayer rang out. There is nothing which goes into a man from outside which can render him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man which render the man unclean." Perhaps she had heard of Christ's feeding five thousand lately at once, after which, even when they had gathered up the fragments, there could not but be some crumbs left for the dogs. Ashwini Upadhyay had filed a petition . (Suetonius, Life of Vespasian 7. True, Israel had the first offer of the gospel, but only the first; there were others still to come. Perhaps she had heard of Christs feeding five thousand lately at once, after which, even when they had gathered up the fragments, there could not but be some crumbs left for the dogs. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice. StudyLght.org. (Though that was what they meant, coveting to make themselves the standard.) There were definite and rigid rules for the washing of hands. Again is it not symbolic? Mark mentions particularly often that the Lord Jesus . No doubt the two things went together; it was the man's inability to hear which made his speech so imperfect. Much later, in the third century after Christ, a summary of all these rules and regulations was made and written down, and that summary is known as the Mishnah. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! Ordinarily, koinos ( G2839) means common; then it comes to describe something which is ordinary in the sense that it is not sacred, something that is profane as opposed to sacred things; and finally it describes something, as it does here, which is ceremonially unclean and unfit for the service and worship of God. It was used to describe something which was specially dedicated to God. He took him aside from the crowd all by himself. In his own country he was under attack from every side. Note, Those that would obtain mercy from Christ, must throw themselves at his feet; must refer themselves to him, humble themselves before him, and give up themselves to be ruled by him. Hence we read of a heart exercised with covetous practices, 2 Pet 2 14. 7:1-4 There gathered together to Jesus the Pharisees, and some of the experts in the law who had come down from Jerusalem. (2.) The region surrounding ancient Tyre, modern day Lebanon and Syria, lay west and north of Galilee. A thing which was Korban ( G2878) was as if it had already been laid upon the altar. But, [2.] Note that this hand-washing was not in the interests of hygienic purity; it was ceremonial cleanness which was at stake. Where the might of arms was helpless, the conquering love of Jesus Christ was victorious. (b) Without a doubt his tone of voice made all the difference. 7:24-30 Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. She found her daughter not in any toss or agitation, but very quietly laid on the bed, and reposing herself; waiting for her mother's return, to rejoice with her, that she was so finely well. They do not ask, Why do not thy disciples do as we do? He put his fingers into his ears, as if he would syringe them, and fetch out that which stopped them up. Note, The greatest blessing we can ask of Christ for our children is, that he would break the power of Satan, that is, the power of sin, in their souls; and particularly, that he would cast forth the unclean spirit, that they may be temples of the Holy Ghost, and he may dwell in them. What the tradition of the elders was: by it all were enjoined to wash their hands before meat; a cleanly custom, and no harm in it; and yet as such to be over-nice in it discovers too great a care about the body, which is of the earth; but they placed religion in it, and would not leave it indifferent, as it was in its own nature; people were at their liberty to do it or not to do it; but they interposed their authority, and commanded all to do it upon pain of excommunication; this they kept up as a tradition of the elders. Not only did the rocks form a breakwater, they also formed a defence; and Tyre was not only a famous harbour, she was also a famous fortress. 4. It may well be that this long journey is the peace before the storm; a long communion with the disciples before the final tempest breaks. Whose house? One is about the washing of hands. Wood used in metal utensils could become unclean; but metal used in wood utensils could not. Her ethnicity deemed her unclean in the Jews eyes, and her sex deemed her of lesser value to them. Where will men stop, when once they have made the word of God give way to their tradition? Laid () Lit., thrown. (2.) In Greek, diminutives are characteristically affectionate. Christ was too well known to be long incognitohid, any where; the oil of gladness which he was anointed with, like ointment of the right hand, would betray itself, and fill the house with its odours. The demon has come out of your daughter!" We must have a care that we never allow rules to paralyse the claims of love. In the beginning everything had been good; man's sin had spoiled it all; and now Jesus was bringing back the beauty of God to the world which man's sin had rendered ugly. They would be thought hereby to appropriate themselves as a holy people to the Lord their God, when really it is the furthest thing in their thought. After all that had been done the hands were clean. And if in his heart there are enmity, bitterness, grudges, pride, not all the outward religious observances in the world will make him anything other than a hypocrite. A dispute about ritual washings. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. He reproves them for their hypocrisy in pretending to honour God, when really they had no such design in their religious observances (v. 6, 7); They honour me with their lips, they pretend it is for the glory of God that they impose those things, to distinguish themselves from the heathen; but really their heart is far from God, and is governed by nothing but ambition and covetousness. Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. A Gentile was unclean; food touched by a Gentile was unclean; any vessel touched by a Gentile was unclean. Now this cure was, (1.) 2. Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? . Of all these he concludes (v. 23), 1. Have a question about the Bible? The prayer was simply a form and a ritual, an outward observance, merely the correct interlude in the career of murder. He went into a house and he did not wish anyone to know about it, but he could not be there without people knowing about it. When a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, she immediately came and threw herself at his feet. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. It was true, there were divers washings imposed by the law of Moses (Heb 9 10), which were intended to signify that inward purification of the heart from worldly fleshly lusts, which God requires as absolutely necessary to our communion with him; but, instead of providing the substance, they presumptuously added to the ceremony, and were very nice in washing pots and cups; and observe, he adds, Many other such like things ye do, v. 8. Wickednessponeriai ; malice, hatred, and they render a man unclean. `` explain Jesus use. Conception of uncleanness hashtag # BibleQA or email us at Privacy @ biblegateway.com daughter! accused the and... 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