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# Mark 7

Mark 7 is chapter 7 of 16 in the Gospel of Mark. Here are all 37 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ rebukes the Pharisees. He heals the daughter of the woman of Chanaan; and the man that was deaf and dumb.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Mark 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him.
2. And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them.
3. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.
4. And when returning from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which have been handed down to them to observe: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and bronze containers, and beds.
5. And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?”
6. But in response, he said to them: “So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7. And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’
8. For abandoning the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, to the washing of pitchers and cups. And you do many other things similar to these.”
9. And he said to them: “You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition.
10. For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.’
11. But you say, ‘If a man will have said to his father or mother: Korban, (which is a gift) whatever is from me will be to your benefit,’
12. then you do not release him to do anything for his father or mother,
13. rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way.”
14. And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15. There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which proceed from a man, these are what pollute a man.
16. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
17. And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.
18. And he said to them: “So, are you also without prudence? Do you not understand that everything entering to a man from outside is not able to pollute him?
19. For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods.”
20. “But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.
21. For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22. thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
23. All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”
24. And rising up, he went from there to the area of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a house, he intended no one to know about it, but he was not able to remain hidden.
25. For a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit, as soon as she heard about him, entered and fell prostrate at his feet.
26. For the woman was a Gentile, by birth a Syro-Phoenician. And she petitioned him, so that he would cast the demon from her daughter.
27. And he said to her: “First allow the sons to have their fill. For it is not good to take away the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs.”
28. But she responded by saying to him: “Certainly, Lord. Yet the young dogs also eat, under the table, from the crumbs of the children.”
29. And he said to her, “Because of this saying, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30. And when she had gone to her house, she found the girl lying on the bed; and the demon had gone away.
31. And again, departing from the borders of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the area of the Ten Cities.
32. And they brought someone who was deaf and mute to him. And they begged him, so that he would lay his hand upon him.
33. And taking him away from the crowd, he put his fingers into his ears; and spitting, he touched his tongue.
34. And gazing up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: “Ephphatha,” which is, “Be opened.”
35. And immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke correctly.
36. And he instructed them not to tell anyone. But as much as he instructed them, so much more did they preach about it.
37. And so much more did they wonder, saying: “He has done all things well. He has caused both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

## Mark 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et conveniunt ad eum pharisæi, et quidam de scribis, venientes ab Jerosolymis.
2. Et cum vidissent quosdam ex discipulis ejus communibus manibus, id est non lotis, manducare panes, vituperaverunt.
3. Pharisæi enim, et omnes Judæi, nisi crebro laverint manus, non manducant, tenentes traditionem seniorum:
4. et a foro nisi baptizentur, non comedunt: et alia multa sunt, quæ tradita sunt illis servare, baptismata calicum, et urceorum, et æramentorum, et lectorum:
5. et interrogabant eum pharisæi et scribæ: Quare discipuli tui non ambulant juxta traditionem seniorum, sed communibus manibus manducant panem?
6. At ille respondens, dixit eis: Bene prophetavit Isaias de vobis hypocritis, sicut scriptum est: Populus hic labiis me honorat, cor autem eorum longe est a me:
7. in vanum autem me colunt, docentes doctrinas, et præcepta hominum.
8. Relinquentes enim mandatum Dei, tenetis traditionem hominum, baptismata urceorum et calicum: et alia similia his facitis multa.
9. Et dicebat illis: Bene irritum facitis præceptum Dei, ut traditionem vestram servetis.
10. Moyses enim dixit: Honora patrem tuum, et matrem tuam. Et: Qui maledixerit patri, vel matri, morte moriatur.
11. Vos autem dicitis: Si dixerit homo patri, aut matri, Corban (quod est donum) quodcumque ex me, tibi profuerit:
12. et ultra non dimittitis eum quidquam facere patri suo, aut matri,
13. rescindentes verbum Dei per traditionem vestram, quam tradidistis: et similia hujusmodi multa facitis.
14. Et advocans iterum turbam, dicebat illis: Audite me omnes, et intelligite.
15. Nihil est extra hominem introiens in eum, quod possit eum coinquinare, sed quæ de homine procedunt illa sunt quæ communicant hominem.
16. Si quis habet aures audiendi, audiat.
17. Et cum introisset in domum a turba, interrogabant eum discipuli ejus parabolam.
18. Et ait illis: Sic et vos imprudentes estis? Non intelligitis quia omne extrinsecus introiens in hominem, non potest eum communicare:
19. quia non intrat in cor ejus, sed in ventrum vadit, et in secessum exit, purgans omnes escas?
20. Dicebat autem, quoniam quæ de homine exeunt, illa communicant hominem.
21. Ab intus enim de corde hominum malæ cogitationes procedunt, adulteria, fornicationes, homicidia,
22. furta, avaritiæ, nequitiæ, dolus, impudicitiæ, oculus malus, blasphemia, superbia, stultitia.
23. Omnia hæc mala ab intus procedunt, et communicant hominem.
24. Et inde surgens abiit in fines Tyri et Sidonis: et ingressus domum, neminem voluit scire, et non potuit latere.
25. Mulier enim statim ut audivit de eo, cujus filia habebat spiritum immundum, intravit, et procidit ad pedes ejus.
26. Erat enim mulier gentilis, Syrophœnissa genere. Et rogabat eum ut dæmonium ejiceret de filia ejus.
27. Qui dixit illi: Sine prius saturari filios: non est enim bonum sumere panem filiorum, et mittere canibus.
28. At illa respondit, et dixit illi: Utique Domine, nam et catelli comedunt sub mensa de micis puerorum.
29. Et ait illi: Propter hunc sermonem vade: exiit dæmonium a filia tua.
30. Et cum abiisset domum suam, invenit puellam jacentem supra lectum, et dæmonium exiisse.
31. Et iterum exiens de finibus Tyri, venit per Sidonem ad mare Galilææ inter medios fines Decapoleos.
32. Et adducunt ei surdum, et mutum, et deprecabantur eum, ut imponat illi manum.
33. Et apprehendens eum de turba seorsum, misit digitos suos in auriculas ejus: et exspuens, tetigit linguam ejus:
34. et suspiciens in cælum, ingemuit, et ait illi: Ephphetha, quod est, Adaperire.
35. Et statim apertæ sunt aures ejus, et solutum est vinculum linguæ ejus, et loquebatur recte.
36. Et præcepit illis ne cui dicerent. Quanto autem eis præcipiebat, tanto magis plus prædicabant:
37. et eo amplius admirabantur, dicentes: Bene omnia fecit: et surdos fecit audire, et mutos loqui.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2218: The Duties of Family Members ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 574: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 582: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1764: Passions ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2616: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1504: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1151: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1441: The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: “Doctrines and precepts of men” … See the annotations, Matt. 15. 9, 11.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Feb 9, 2027: Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 7:1-13
- Sun, Aug 29, 2027 (computed): Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
- Sun, Sep 5, 2027 (computed): Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 7:31-37
- Tue, Feb 8, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Mark 7:1-13

3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).