Mark 7:1,2 Then came together unto him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

Mark 7:3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Mark 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels and of tables.

Mark 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 

Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well has Esaias.(Isaiah).prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

As the corrupt Pharisees and their friends did in the time of Emmanuel on Earth:.Matthew 23:13. On the doctrine of the Pharisees:.Matthew 15:2,5,6,9.

Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups and many other such like things you do.

Keeping busy doing many physical things that support a heart not on the true God of all creation:.Luke 10:38-42.

Mark 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your own tradition.

Jeremiah 6:15-17.

Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother and Whoso curses father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:11 But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever you might be profited by me, he shall be free.

Comprised from Bible Dictionaries: Corban means 'consecrated to God'. It is the Aramaic word for 'offering to God', that is, a son might deprive his parents of anything which he ought.justly to render to them by going through an empty ceremony of consecrating it to God. In reality this nullified the law of love involving caring for parents and it was, therefore, a striking.instance of the hypocrisy of the Scribes and of their making the word of God of none effect through tradition. Under pretence of rendering God honor, one only had to pronounce this word over anything in order to.set it aside for some alleged.divine use and in so doing, escape the obligation of giving it for the relief or comfort of his parents. Even when said in good faith, this contravenes the law of love, since the duty to the parent takes precedenceover any obligation to make offerings to the religious leaders of the day. The Mosaic Law never gave offerings precedence over moral duties. The religious inventions of the scribes had so perverted the moral intelligence of people that it had come to be a recognized thing that to declare any possession 'Corban', left one free to refuse to use it for help even to father or mother. This was a devilish con job to get people to contribute money to corrupt.religious.groups which at that time included the Scribes.

Mark 7:12 And you suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered and many such like things do you.

Their traditions.(Matthew 15:2,5,6,9).were based not on God's law of love:.Matthew 22:35-40.

Mark 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you and come to comprehend:

Mark 7:15 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.

Mark 7:16,17 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

Mark 7:18 And he said unto them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him.

Mark 7:19 Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly and goes out into the draught.(a place where the human waste discharges are dumped), purging all meats.(means 'foods')?

Mark 7:20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men.(if it's negative out of the heart, it's from the ego influenced by the dark side), proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

Mark 7:23 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.

Mark 7:24-26 And from thence he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon and entered into an house and would have no man know it, but he could not be hid, for a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him and came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Mark 7:27 But Emmanuel said unto her, Let the children first be filled.(Emmanuel's purpose at this time was to deal with the 'lost sheep of the house of Israel; at this link are the parallel accounts), for it is not meet.(not fitting).to take the children's bread and to cast it unto the dogs..(*)

Mark 7:28-30 And she answered and said unto him, Yes Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go your way, the devil is gone out of your daughter. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out and her daughter laid upon the bed.

Mark 7:31 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.

Mark 7:32-35 And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spake plain.

Mark 7:36,37 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; And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

Mark 8:1-9 In those days the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Emmanuel called his disciples unto him and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat; And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for divers of them came from far. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And he asked them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground and he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and brake and gave to his disciples to set before them and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes and he blessed and commanded to set them also before them. So they did eat and were filled and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand and he sent them away.

Mark 8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Mark 8:12,13 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation. And he left them and entering into the ship again departed to the other side. 

Mark 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 

Mark 8:16-21 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. And when Emmanuel knew it, he said unto them, Why reason you, because you have no bread? perceive you not yet, neither comprehend? Is your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? and do you not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that you do not comprehend?

Mark 8:22 And he comes to Bethsaida and they bring a blind man unto him and besought him to touch him.

Mark 8:23-26 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town and when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes and made him look up and he was restored and saw every man clearly. And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

Mark 8:27,28 And Emmanuel went out and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea Philippi and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them Whom do men say that I am? And they answered, John the Baptist but some say, Elias and others, One of the prophets.

Mark 8:29 And he said unto them But whom say you that I am? And Peter answered and said unto him, You are the Christ. 

Mark 8:30 And he mentioned to them that they should tell no man of him.

Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and scribes and be killed and after three days rise again.

Mark 8:32,33 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter saying, Get you behind me, Satan, for you savour not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Peter was impetuous and was inclined to act without thinking, as he also did here Matthew 26:51-54 and here Matthew 26:33-35.

Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's.(it was so important that the message of good news called 'the gospel', be gotten out to others), the same shall save it.

Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?.(*)

Mark 8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels..

As the original has it, "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when comes with glory the Father with holy angels."

Word 'glory' means 'to think like God'; that is, when comes the thinking of God with the holy angels? that is, when comes the thinking of God to each of us, enabled by the angels, if not when our minds are awakened to our true state? Meaning, if one is awakened, but ashamed of what he or she has been awakened to, well, what good is it then? Also in Luke 9:26.

Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power..(?)

Mark 9:2 And after six days Emmanuel takes with him Peter and James and John and leads them up into an high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them. 

Mark 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller on Earth can white them. 

Mark 9:4-8 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses. And they were talking with Emmanuel. And Peter answered and said to Emmanuel, Master, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elias. For he didn't know what not what to say for they were sore afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son. Hear him. And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Emmanuel only with themselves.

Mark 9:9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.

Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily comes first and restores all things and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be set at nought.

Old Testament prophecy on this..Barnes Notes on 'to be set at nought' means 'is to be esteemed as worthless or as nothing', to be cast out and despised. No prophecy was ever more strikingly fulfilled:.Luke 23:11.

Mark 9:13-16 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them and the scribes questioning with them.  And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed and running to him saluted him. And he asked the scribes, What question you with them?

Mark 9:17,18 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto you my son, which has a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he.(the dumb spirit; the evil demon making the child unable to speak).takes him, he tears him.(twists and turns him one way and then another and flails his arms about as he walks).and he foams and gnashes with his teeth and pines away and I spake to your disciples that they should cast him out and they could not.(why?).

Mark 9:19 He answered him and said, O faithless generation.(if these common people had faith they could have done the miracles Emmanuel did, but they never looked to themselves as being connected to the true God, enabling them to do them, instead looking only to Him to do it for them; though they were thankful for the miracles He did, they assumed it was His domain only and never asked Him about teaching them to do it), how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.

Mark 9:20 And they brought him unto him and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him and he fell on the ground and wallowed.foaming.

Mark 9:21,22 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it has cast him into the fire and into the waters, to destroy him, but if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.

Typical dark side workings to destroy. Today?

Mark 9:23 Emmanuel said unto him, If you can believe,.all things are possible.to him that believes.

The word 'believes' here is 'faith' in the original. What's the difference? The verse is really talking about one who looks to God by using one of the free gifts God gave us, as compared to one who doesn't. Learn how.

Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe;.help you mine unbelief.

He was saying 'I want to believe and can if you'll help me not to be unbelieving'. That is, help my lack of faith not to negatively affect me, help me to believe, help me to see things as you do or, as.Clarke's Commentary.has it 'assist me against not believing', that is, assist me against this unbelief that is dogging me. And the best way to do that is to realize that it's not any faith you can muster up that matters anyhow, why? And, Bruno Gröning said."I will believe for you until you can.".This meaning, because you ask him for help or healing, he will do it and then you'll see that there is this power you can believe in that's available for you. And what can the power do? Anything.

Mark 9:25 When Emmanuel saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him and enter no more into him.

Mark 9:26 And the spirit cried and rent him sore and came out of him. And he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

Mark 9:27 But Emmanuel took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose.

Mark 1:27.

Mark 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

These things help one to get into and remain in a higher consciousness.

Mark 9:30 And they departed thence and passed through Galilee and he would not that any man should know it.

Mark 9:31 For he taught his disciples and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men and they shall kill him and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

Mark 9:32 But they understood not that saying and were afraid to ask him. 

Mark 9:33 And he came to Capernaum and being in the house he asked them, What was it that you disputed among yourselves by the way?

Mark 9:34 But they held their peace, for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest.

They talked back and forth amongst themselves, reasoning which of them is most qualified to be the leader in this kingdom they expected Christ was to soon form back then:.Matthew 4:23.

Mark 9:35 And he sat down and called the twelve and said unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same should learn to be last of all and servant to all.

If one wants to be first, that is, first above others, it's of his or her ego and needs to learn humility:.Matthew 18:1-7; 23:11; Luke 9:46; 22:24. The great apostle Paul was this way at first:.Romans 9:3; 1Corinthians 9:19.

Mark 9:36 And he took a child and set him in the midst of them and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 

Mark 9:37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receives me. And whosoever shall receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.

Mark 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name and he follows not us and we forbad him, because he follows not us.

Mark 9:39 But Emmanuel said, Forbid him not. For there is no man.(original is 'no one').which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me..(?)

Mark 9:40 For he that is not against us is on our part.

And that's pretty well the whole world out there, except of course, those that were against. These others who were not against, just needed to be awakened to their true state, but with people like the Pharisees around to lead them astray, it was difficult.

Mark 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.

Matthew 25:40.

Mark 9:42And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.

Be careful how you treat others:.Philippians 2:3 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."

Mark 9:43 And if your hand offend you, cut it off.(?). It is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.

Mark 9:44 Where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched..(?)

Mark 9:45 And if your foot offend you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.

Mark 9:46 Where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched..(?)

Mark 9:47 And if your eye offend thee, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

What eye was Emmanuel talking about here?.Jeremiah 27:5.

Mark 9:48 Where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched..(?)

Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Mark 9:50 Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will you season it? Have salt.(Matthew 5:13).in yourselves and have peace one with another.

Comprised with.International Standard Bible Encyclopedia:.as salt was regarded as a necessary ingredient of daily food and of all sacrifices offered to God (Leviticus 2:13), it became an easy step to the very close connection between salt and covenant-making (a covenant is an agreement). When men ate together they became friends. Compare the Arabic expression 'There is salt between us' and 'He has eaten of my salt' which means partaking of hospitality which cemented friendship. Covenants were generally confirmed by sacrificial meals and salt was always present. Since too, salt is a preservative, it would easily become symbolic of an enduring covenant, so as offerings to God were to be by a statute forever:.Numbers 18:19. David received his kingdom forever from God by a "covenant of salt":.2Chronicles 13:5. In the light of these conceptions this remark of our Lord becomes the more significant.

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