Verse by verse the new testament (2)

Mark 7:20

And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

[BIBLE]Mark 7:21[/BIBLE]

Mark 7:22

"thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

Mark 7:23

"All these evil things come from within and defile the man."

i. "Thoughts are the eggs of words and actions, and within the thoughts lie compacted and condensed all the villainy of actual transgressions. If men did but more carefully watch their thoughts, they would not so readily fall into evil habits; but men first indulge the thought of evil, and then the imagination of evil; nor does the process stay there. Picturing it before their mind's eye, they excite their own desires after it; these grow into a thirst and kindle into a passion." (Spurgeon)


f. This is a powerful reminder that what God first wants from us is our heart. We can only really be changed before God from the inside out. If the life and the power and the work of God isn't real in our heart, then it isn't real at all.
D. Guzik note
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Mark 7:24

And from there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden.

Mark 7:25

For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet.

Mark 7:26

The woman whose was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:27 "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."

Mark 7:28 "Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

Mark 7:29 Then he told her, "For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter."

Mark 7:30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Mark 7:31 (The Message)

Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns.

Mark 7:32

Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged Him to put His hand on Him.

Mark 7:33 (The Message)

He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man's ears and some spit on the man's tongue.

Mark 7:34

Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."

Mark 7:35

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

Mark 7:36

Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

Mark 7:37

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

Mark 8:1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

Mark 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: