Mark's Gospel: Chapter 7
Isaiah's prophecy about you hypocrites is true.
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Key words
- Defile: to spoil the goodness or beauty of something
Cans, paper bags, and other trash defiled the landscape.
- Hypocrite: someone who says they have particular moral beliefs but behaves in way that shows these are not sincere
He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing other people on the environment but he drives around in a huge car.
- In vain: unsuccessfully
All the police's efforts to find him were in vain.
- Exempt: with special permission not to do or pay something
Pregnant women are exempt from dental charges under the current health system.
- Nullify: to cause something to have no value or effect
The company wants to nullify the contract.
Read the article to find the answers
- Where do evil thoughts come from?
- What do evil thoughts do to a man?
- What did Jesus tell the people not to do after He healed the deaf man?
- What did they do?
Jesus explains what makes people unclean
The religious scholars from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and noticed that some of His disciples were eating bread without washing their hands. This practice went against their traditions. They asked Jesus why His disciples didn't follow the traditional practice of washing their hands before eating.
He replied:
"Isaiah's prophecy about you hypocrites is true, as it is written: This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Their worship is in vain, they teach the commandments of men."
"You reject the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition. Moses said, honour your parents, and whoever curses his parents, let them die. But you say that some people are exempt from helping their parents. Your traditions nullify the word of God."