1 - 23 The Traditions of the Elders. What Defiles a Man
24 - 30 The Syrophoenician Woman
31 - 37 Caring of a Deaf Man
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The Pharisees and teachers of law go to where Jesus is teaching and see the disciples eating with unwashed hands. Jewish tradition holds that if you wash yourself and everything that enters into you (and cups, plates, etc.) that this will help you to be "clean". They confront Jesus with this situation; that they are violating Jewish rules. Jesus quotes Isaiah by saying that they are fulfilling the prophecy that "these people" honor God with their words but not with their hearts and that their worship is nothing but man-made rules. He quotes Moses and the commandment "honor your father and mother" but points out that current Jewish traditions, Corban, nullify this commandment. Notes indicate that Corban is an offering. Jewish children were "offering" the money from their earnings that were supposed to be dedicated for the care of their parents. By saying it was an "offering" they were ingoring their responsibilities for caring for their parents. Jesus offers this an one example of their hypycracy. Jesus states that "Nothing that enters a man can make him unclean. What is in a man's heart makes him unclean." Jesus lists evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy slander, arrogance, and folly as "uncleanness" that comes from within us; nothing outside us makes us have these things or act on them. Eating with dirty hands certainly doesn't creat these things.
Jesus goes to visit someone, tries to remain annonymous, but a Greek woman recognizes him. The woman asks Jesus to drive out a demon from her daughter. Jesus says, "First let the children eat all they want for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." Notes refer to an explanation in Matthew which explains that the "children" are the Jews, the "bread" is the gospel, and the "dogs" are non-Jews meaning that he was ministering to Jews first. The woman said that she was willing to settle for "crumbs". Because of her faith, Jew or not, Jesus healed her daughter.
Jesus goes to Decapolis where some people bring a deaf/mute man to him to heal. He took the man away to privacy, put his fingers in the man's ears, spit on his fingers and touched the man's toungue, and said, "Be opened!" The man was healed. Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone but word spread quickly.
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The Pharisees and teachers of law go to where Jesus is teaching and see the disciples eating with unwashed hands. Jewish tradition holds that if you wash yourself and everything that enters into you (and cups, plates, etc.) that this will help you to be "clean". They confront Jesus with this situation; that they are violating Jewish rules.
Jesus quotes Isaiah by saying that they are fulfilling the prophecy that "these people" honor God with their words but not with their hearts and that their worship is nothing but man-made rules. He quotes Moses and the commandment "honor your father and mother" but points out that current Jewish traditions, Corban, nullify this commandment. Notes indicate that Corban is an offering. Jewish children were "offering" the money from their earnings that were supposed to be dedicated for the care of their parents. By saying it was an "offering" they were ingoring their responsibilities for caring for their parents. Jesus offers this an one example of their hypycracy.
Jesus states that "Nothing that enters a man can make him unclean. What is in a man's heart makes him unclean." Jesus lists evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy slander, arrogance, and folly as "uncleanness" that comes from within us; nothing outside us makes us have these things or act on them. Eating with dirty hands certainly doesn't creat these things.
Jesus goes to visit someone, tries to remain annonymous, but a Greek woman recognizes him. The woman asks Jesus to drive out a demon from her daughter. Jesus says, "First let the children eat all they want for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." Notes refer to an explanation in Matthew which explains that the "children" are the Jews, the "bread" is the gospel, and the "dogs" are non-Jews meaning that he was ministering to Jews first. The woman said that she was willing to settle for "crumbs". Because of her faith, Jew or not, Jesus healed her daughter.
Jesus goes to Decapolis where some people bring a deaf/mute man to him to heal. He took the man away to privacy, put his fingers in the man's ears, spit on his fingers and touched the man's toungue, and said, "Be opened!" The man was healed. Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone but word spread quickly.
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