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Mark 7:1-23

From Within

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From Within

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.

Bible book
Mark
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Mark
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Electronic
[Intro - washed hands] The Pharisees saw some disciples eat bread With unwashen hands. They asked why the disciples walked not According to the tradition of the elders. [Refrain - Isaiah's answer] This people honoureth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship, Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. [Breakdown - Corban] Full well ye reject the commandment of God, That ye may keep your own tradition. Honour thy father and thy mother; Yet Corban leaves the parent unaided. [Bridge - hear and understand] There is nothing from without a man That entering into him can defile him. The things which come out of him, Those are they that defile the man. [Verse - the heart uncovered] From within, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, Adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, Covetousness, wickedness, deceit, pride, foolishness; All these evil things come from within. [Outro] If any man have ears to hear, Let him hear and understand.

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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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