Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Mark | Page 8

farewell, and went away up the hill to pray. 006:047 When evening was come, the boat was half way across the Lake, while he Himself was on shore alone. 006:048 But when He saw them distressed with rowing (for the wind was against them), towards morning He came towards them walking on the Lake, as if intending to pass them. 006:049 They saw Him walking on the water, and thinking that it was a spirit they cried out; 006:050 for they all saw Him and were terrified. He, however, immediately spoke to them. "There is no danger," He said; "it is I; be not alarmed." 006:051 Then He went up to them on board the boat, and the wind lulled; and they were beside themselves with silent amazement. 006:052 For they had not learned the lesson taught by the loaves, but their minds were dull. 006:053 Having crossed over they drew to land in Gennesaret and came to anchor. 006:054 But no sooner had they gone ashore than the people immediately recognized Him. 006:055 Then they scoured the whole district, and began to bring Him the sick on their mats wherever they heard He was. 006:056 And enter wherever He might--village or town or hamlet-- they laid their sick in the open places, and entreated Him to let them touch were it but the tassel of His robe; and all, whoever touched Him, were restored to health. 007:001 Then the Pharisees, with certain Scribes who had come from Jerusalem, came to Him in a body. 007:002 They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with `unclean' (that is to say, unwashed) hands. 007:003 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews--being, as they are, zealous for the traditions of the Elders--never eat without first carefully washing their hands, 007:004 and when they come from market they will not eat without bathing first; and they have a good many other customs which they have received traditionally and cling to, such as the rinsing of cups and pots and of bronze utensils, and the washing of beds.) 007:005 So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?" 007:006 "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites," He replied; "as it is written, "`This People honour Me with their lips, while their hearts are far away from Me: 007:007 But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.' 007:008 "You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions." 007:009 "Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions! 007:010 For Moses said, `Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, `He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.' 007:011 But *you* say, `If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God), whatever it is, which otherwise you would have received from me--' 007:012 And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother, 007:013 thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you do." 007:014 Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand. 007:015 There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean." 007:016 [] 007:017 After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech. 007:018 "Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean, 007:019 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean. 007:020 "What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean. 007:021 For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed-- fornication, theft, murder, adultery, 007:022 covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly: 007:023 all these wicked things come out from within and make a man unclean." 007:024 Then He rose and left that place and went into the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon. Here He entered a house and wished no one to know it, but He could not escape observation. 007:025 Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit heard of Him, and came and flung herself at His feet. 007:026 She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again