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Mark 7:1-23
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This song belongs to the Mark collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Mark 7: The boundary moves from the hands to the heart
Mark 7 begins with hands and ends with ears, but the movement between them passes through the heart. A dispute over inherited washing customs becomes an argument about what human tradition can do when it displaces a direct command of God. Jesus' Corban example makes the cost concrete by placing neglected parents behind religious language. He then moves the question of defilement inward, distinguishing food that passes through the body from evils that proceed from the heart. Beyond the earlier Galilean setting, a Syrophenician mother answers a difficult saying about children's bread with a reply that keeps her request inside the image rather than rejecting it. The chapter ends with a deaf man's ears opened and speech released. After repeated commands to hear and understand, Mark closes on hearing restored and words that refuse to stay quiet.
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