Ch07_01_Biblical Exposition_Summary of the entire content • The perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit

Mark chapter 7 records how Jesus criticized the tradition of the elders held by the Pharisees and the scribes, taught that what defiles a man is not unwashed hands or food from outside but the sin that comes out of the heart, and then cast the demon out of the Syro-Phoenician woman’s daughter and healed a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. The Pharisees and the scribes blamed the disciples for eating food without the ceremonial washing of hands, but Jesus rebuked them for keeping the tradition of men while laying aside the commandment of God. In particular, He pointed out the contradiction of using the tradition of “Corban”—declaring something a gift to God—to evade the responsibility of honoring one’s parents. Jesus said that the evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, covetousness, and the like that come out of a man’s heart defile him. Afterward, in the Gentile region of Tyre, when the Syro-Phoenician woman pleaded with Him to heal her demon-possessed daughter, Jesus received her humble and persistent answer and healed the daughter. In the region of Decapolis He said “Ephphatha” to a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and opened his ears and tongue. This chapter shows that realizing the sin of the heart matters more than outward religious forms, and that the compassion and power of Jesus reach beyond the boundary of the Jews to Gentiles and neglected people.

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