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30 sie 2015 · Commentary on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 In this text, Jesus addresses three different audiences: a group of Pharisees and scribes who raise the question of defilement, the crowd that is perpetually present, and the disciples who, true to character in Mark’s Gospel, don’t understand.
A dispute about ritual washings. 1. (1-5) Religious leaders from Jerusalem come to find fault and to ask questions about the failure of the disciples to observe ceremonial washings. Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem.
Mark 7:14-16. When he had called all the people unto him — See note on Matthew 15:10-11. He said, Hearken unto me, every one of you — As if he had said, Hear how absurd the precepts are which the scribes inculcate upon you, and understand the true differences of things.
11 paź 2020 · Thankfully we have the Word of God to help us properly understand both the source and the solution for our sins. In Mark 7:14-23 Jesus makes it clear that the source of our sin is the corruption of our hearts and that there’s nothing that we can do to make our to make ourselves clean.
23 sie 2021 · in verses 1-8, Jesus is speaking with the Pharisees and scribes; in verses 14-14, Jesus is teaching the crowd; in verses 21-23, Jesus is explaining things in private to the disciples. We get to witness and be shaped by all three stages of the conversation.
2 wrz 2018 · In the Gospels, it seems that Jesus saves his sharpest words, his most pointed criticism, for the most religious. It is not the tax collectors and other notorious sinners who are reproached by Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes, the experts in God’s law, the high achievers in religious piety.
2 wrz 2012 · The narrator’s comment in verse 3 about “all the Jews” overstates the case; different Jews followed different traditions. Yet the scribes and Pharisees’ question in verse 5 implicitly criticizes those disciples.
