That Which Defiles Test — Answers from Mark 7

1.Did the Pharisees question Yeshua because His disciples ate with unwashed hands? (Mark 7:5)
Yes
2.Does Scripture say the washing was a tradition of the elders? (Mark 7:3)
Yes
3.Did Yeshua say, "You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions"? (Mark 7:8)
Yes
4.Did Yeshua quote Isaiah, saying, "Their teachings are merely human rules"? (Mark 7:7)
Yes
5.Did Yeshua say that nothing entering a person from outside can defile them? (Mark 7:15)
Yes
6.Did Yeshua say that what comes out of a person is what defiles them? (Mark 7:20)
Yes
7.Does Mark 7:2 identify the issue as eating with defiled (unwashed) hands?
Yes
8.Does Mark 7:3 state that the practice came from the tradition of the elders?
Yes

Summary from the Passage
The subject raised by the Pharisees was eating with unwashed hands (Mark 7:2, 5).
The washing was identified as a tradition of the elders (Mark 7:3).
Yeshua rebuked those who held to human traditions while neglecting God's commandments (Mark 7:7–8).
Yeshua taught that what proceeds from the heart defiles a person (Mark 7:20–23).

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Defile means to make something unclean, impure, polluted, or contaminated.
In Mark 7, Yeshua explained that true defilement is not caused by eating with unwashed hands, but by the sinful things that come from the heart.

"There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him... but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man." (Mark 7:15)

Yeshua later explained:
"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." (Mark 7:21–23)
 

Biblical Meaning of Defile
Ceremonially unclean – made unclean according to ritual laws (Leviticus).
Morally defiled – corrupted by sin, evil thoughts, and disobedience.
Spiritually defiled – polluted before God by wickedness and idolatry.

In Mark 7
The Pharisees were concerned about defiled hands (unwashed according to tradition).
Yeshua directed attention to a greater issue:
A person's heart can be defiled by sin, and that defilement comes from within. (Mark 7:20–23)

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That Which Defiles

1 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus 

2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 

3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.

 4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles. a )

5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:

“ ‘These people honor me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me.

7 They worship me in vain;

their teachings are merely human rules.’ b

8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”

9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe c your own traditions! 

10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ d and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ e

 11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—

 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 

13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 

15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

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17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

 18“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) 

There is nothing to indicate changing the Gods food restrictions.

it was about washing before eating man made traditions.

check Leviticus for classification of animals that are created to be scavengers  all these animals carry bacteria  and unfit for consumption . They eat dead animals. 

Jesus declared all food clean was added to this verse not what Yeshua said 

 

The biblical instruction to not add to or take away from God's word is found in both the Old and New Testaments. It serves as a solemn warning against distorting, altering, or misrepresenting divine truth. [Revelation 22:18-19: Deuteronomy 4:2

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Mark 7
There is no such thing as unclean food! You will not find any definition of what is food in the new testament, only in the book of Leviticus, God's food laws it is not optional,

The translators added (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

What Defiles a Person

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, that defiled man.

Supporting facts

He gave a parable that Yeshua was disappointed with His disciples for not understand.

 (Thus he declared all foods clean.) this was added to the text, If he said this it would have shown he was not the messiah because he would have sinned,the messiah was without sin.

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