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|'''V1-2'''   Certain scribes complained about His [[disciple]]s eating bread with defiled<Ref name="koinos">{{2839}}</Ref> unwashed<Ref name="aniptos">{{449}}</Ref>   hands.
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| The [[Pharisees]] challenged [[Jesus]] and  Jesus challenged them "Why do ye also transgress the commandment"<Ref name="commandment5"></Ref> and that challenge still applies to the [[modern Christian]].
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| The English word ''[[tradition]]'' means what is a customary practice. Their term  in the text is ''paradosis'' meaning "the act of giving up" and "the surrender of cities". In Greek it meant "delivery (of goods, parcels, etc" or from a military view "surrender".)<Ref name="tradition"></Ref> is also translated "[[ordinances]]".
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| How do their ''ordinances'' transgress the commandments of God? 
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| V6 Jesus calls them [[hypocrite|hypocrites]], because they value (''honoureth'')<Ref name="timao">{{5091}}</Ref> with their lips, but not with their heart. The use of the Greek term ''maten'' as [[vain]]<Ref name="maten">{{3155}}</Ref> suggests a lack of [[fruit]]. The word [[worship]]<Ref name="sebomai">{{4576}}</Ref> sebomia rather than  [[3000|latreuo]], ''to serve'', or the common word for [[worship]] [[4352|proskuneo]], ''homage''.
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| V7 They teach "didasko"<Ref name="didasko">{{1321}}</Ref> for doctrines "didaskalia"<Ref name="didaskalia">{{1319}}</Ref> which are actually "precepts"<Ref name="entalma">{{1778}}</Ref> of men. He is saying their [[tradition]]s and [[doctrines of men|doctrines are not of God but of men]].
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| What we are seeing is the same challenge made in [[Mark 7]]:11 also in [[Matthew 15]] concerning the sacrifice/[[corban]] given to the temple where sons think they do not need to take [[care]] of their parents because they gave a gift/offering<Ref name="gift">{{1435}}</Ref> at the temple. The same word ''gift'' is in [[John 9]], [[Mark 7]], and [[Matthew 15]].
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| In [[Exodus 20]]:12 the word ''honor"<Ref name="honor">{{5091}}</Ref>  is from the Hebrew word meaning to give a ''value'' from a word to ''fatten''.
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| '''V10''' "Whoso curseth<Ref name="kakologōn">{{2551}}</Ref> father or mother, let him die the death:"<Ref name="honorfm">{{honorfm}}</Ref> In the Greek ''kakologeo'' can mean to curse as in say something evil but also can mean abuse even by neglect. Which in '''Verse 12''' we see that whatever this [[Corban]]  of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Herod]] is it is not only different than the [[Corban]] of [[Moses]] but it causing the sons to do "no more to do ought for his father or his mother" which is ''slighting them'' which would be an ''abuse''. 
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| '''V12''' And with the statement "And ye suffer him" is saying that the [[pharisees]] evidently are allowing sons to do that which would be contrary to [[Exodus 21]]:17  we can see  "[[curse]]  his father, or his mother" in that text where the word ''curse''<Ref name="qalal">{{07043}}</Ref> only means to even ''slight'' or because of an extra Mem, ''continuously slight'' their parents or "be of little account" in the [[care]] of their parents which is a violation of what Moses taught.<Ref name="kmoses">{{kmoses}}</Ref> 
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| At that time in Judea children were permitted by the Pharisees to neglect their parents because the system of  [[welfare]] provided by them through the temple build by Herod was to provide the daily administration through the collection of taxes. The Roman Empire and many other [[city-states]] provided [[free bread]] and aid for the needy through forms of [[legal charity]].  
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| The [[Corban]] instituted by [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] was no different. It required you pay into the [[temples]]' [[treasury]] once you were [[idiotes|registered]]. Any [[benefit]] provided through such a system was now the ''[[dainties]] of rulers'' provided at the [[tables]] of those [[benefactors]] ''who [[exercise authority]] one over the other'' was forbidden by Christ and were a [[snare]] according to Paul and David because they were the  [[covetous practices]] which make you [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]] according to Peter.
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| We see the [[fear]] of the blind man's parents when they might be kicked out of that [[social security]] system of the temple in [[John 9]]. The [[free bread]] of [[Rome]] also came from their [[temples]] and provided ''benefits to the people''<Ref>'''“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is [[FDR|he who spreads]] among them [[legal charity|bounties, donations]], and [[benefits]].”''' [[Plutarch]]</Ref> by men like [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] that [[force]]d the contributions of the people. It would be those "commandments of men"<Ref name="entalma"></Ref> that would be done away with by ''nailing it to the [[cross]]''.
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| The people of Judea and most of the [[world]] were back in the [[bondage of Egypt]]. When the people received the [[baptism]] pf Jesus they were cast out of the [[Corban]] system of the [[Pharisees]] they were free to create a [[daily ministration]] and pursuit the [[Corban of Christ]].
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== Traditions and Commandments ==


1 ¶  Then came together unto him the [[Pharisees]], and certain of the [[scribe|scribes]], which came from [[Jerusalem]].

2  And when they saw some of his [[disciple]]s eat bread with defiled<Ref name="koinos">{{2839}}</Ref> , that is to say, with unwashen<Ref name="aniptos">{{449}}</Ref>, hands, they found fault.

3  For the [[Pharisees]], and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the [[tradition]]<Ref name="tradition">{{3862}}</Ref> of the [[elders]].<Ref name="trads">{{trads}}</Ref>

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.<Ref name="kline">{{2825}}</Ref>

5  Then the [[Pharisees]] and [[scribe |scribes]] asked him, '''Why walk not thy disciples according to the [[tradition]]<Ref name="tradition">{{3862}}</Ref> of the elders<Ref name="trads">{{trads}}</Ref>, but eat bread with unwashen<Ref name="aniptos">{{449}}</Ref> hands?'''

=== Hypocrites ===

6  He answered and said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Well hath Esaias<Ref>[[Isaiah 29]]:13  Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</Ref> prophesied of you [[hypocrite|hypocrites]], as it is written, This people honoureth<Ref name="timao">{{5091}}</Ref> me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.'''</span>

7  <span style="color:red">'''Howbeit in [[vain]]<Ref name="maten">{{3155}}</Ref> do they [[worship]]<Ref name="sebomai">{{4576}}</Ref> me, teaching<Ref name="didasko">{{1321}}</Ref> for doctrines<Ref name="didaskalia">{{1319}}</Ref> the [[doctrines of men|commandments]]<Ref name="entalma">{{1778}}</Ref> of men.'''</span> 

===Rejectd commands of God ===

8  <span style="color:red">'''For laying aside the commandment<Ref name="commandment5">{{1785}}</Ref> of God, ye hold the [[tradition]]<Ref name="tradition">{{3862}}</Ref>  of men<Ref name="trads">{{trads}}</Ref>, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.'''</span>

9  And he said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Full well ye reject the commandment<Ref name="commandment5">{{1785}}</Ref>  of God, that ye may keep your own tradition<Ref name="tradition">{{3862}}</Ref> .<Ref name="jesuscovet">{{jesuscovet}}</Ref>'''</span>

=== Honour the family ===

10  <span style="color:red">'''For [[Moses]] said, Honour thy father and thy mother<Ref name="honorfm">{{honorfm}}</Ref>; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:'''</span>

=== What Defiles a Person ===

11  <span style="color:red">'''But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is [[Corban]], that is to say, a gift<Ref name="gift">{{1435}}</Ref>, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by<Ref name="opheleo">{{5623}}</Ref> me; he shall be free.'''</span>

12  <span style="color:red">'''And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;'''</span>

13  <span style="color:red">'''Making the word of God of none effect<Ref name="akuroo">{{208}}</Ref><Ref name="weightmat">{{weightmat}}</Ref> through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.'''</span><Ref name="kmoses">{{kmoses}}</Ref>

== Hearken unto me ==

14  And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:'''</span><Ref name="hearsee">{{hearsee}}</Ref> 

15  <span style="color:red">'''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.'''</span>

16  <span style="color:red">'''If any man have ears to [[hear]], let him hear.'''</span>

17  And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the [[Parables|parable]].

=== Do ye not perceive ===

18  And he saith unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;'''</span>

19  <span style="color:red">'''Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all [[meats]]<Ref name="broma">{{1033}}</Ref>?'''</span> 

20  And he said, <span style="color:red">'''That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

=== Out of the heart ===

21  <span style="color:red">'''For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed [[evil]] thoughts, [[adultery|adulteries]], [[fornication|fornications]], murders,'''</span>

22  <span style="color:red">'''Thefts, [[covet]]ousness<Ref name="jesuscovet">{{jesuscovet}}</Ref>, [[wicked|wickedness]], deceit, [[lasciviousness]], an [[Eyes|evil eye]], [[blasphemy]], [[pride]], [[foolish]]ness:'''</span>

23  <span style="color:red">'''All these [[evil]] things come from within, and defile the man.'''</span>

== The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith ==

24 ¶  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.

25  For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

26  The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.<Ref name="Possesed">{{Possesed}}</Ref>

27  But Jesus said unto her, <span style="color:red">'''Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.'''</span>

28  And she answered and said unto him, '''Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.'''

29  And he said unto her, <span style="color:red">'''For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.'''</span>

30  And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

== Jesus Heals a Deaf Man ==

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.

32  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.

33  And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit<Ref name="spatdna">{{spatdna}}</Ref>, and touched his tongue;

34  And looking up to heaven, he sighed<Ref name="sighd">{{sighd}}</Ref>, and saith unto him, <span style="color:red">'''Ephphatha'''<Ref name="ephphatha">{{2188}}</Ref></span>, that is, Be opened. 

35  And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

36  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;

37  And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to [[hear]], and the dumb to speak.

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