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This was the peak of Jesus popularity
But we will quickly notice because, He would not do what they wanted Him to do, His popularity would quickly decline
He speaks in parables but He only explains them to the 12
The time is around the Passover
This is a very prestigious group, come from Jerusalem
They want Jesus dead.
The Confrontation
There are four stages in this drama, and the first is accusation ().
The Jewish religious leaders were now openly hostile toward the Lord and His ministry.
It was not unusual for them to follow Him from place to place simply to watch for something to criticize.
In this case, they accused the disciples of failing to practice the Jewish ceremonial washing.
These washings had nothing to do with personal hygiene, nor were they commanded in the Law.
They were a part of the tradition that the scribes and Pharisees had given to the people to add to their burdens ().
This dose not mean that they were not sanitary
This dose not mean that their hands were dirty, this simply means that they were not ceremonially clean
Things Ceremonial show the need keep clean from sin
ceremonially unwashed
It was a technical term among Jews denoting whatever was contaminated according to their religious rituals and thus was unfit to be called holy or devoted to God.
The Disciples hands were clean but not clean enough for their standards
Grassmick, J. D. (1985).
Mark.
In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.),
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol.
2, p. 132).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
This washing had nothing to do with cleaning dirty hands but with a ceremonial rinsing.
“Tradition is a fence around the law.”
Tradition, as the Jews saw it, protected God’s Holy Word and assisted his people in keeping it.
The Mishnah, a compilation of Jewish oral laws made at the end of the second century A.D., says,
For example, looking in the mirror was forbidden, because if you looked into the mirror on the Sabbath day and saw a gray hair, you might be tempted to pull it out and thus perform work on the Sabbath.
You also could not wear your false teeth; if they fell out, you would have to pick them up and you would be working.
In regard to carrying a burden, you could not carry a handkerchief on the Sabbath, but you could wear a handkerchief.
That meant if you were upstairs and wanted to take the handkerchief downstairs, you would have to tie it around your neck, walk downstairs, and untie it.
Then you could blow your nose downstairs!
The rabbis debated about a man with a wooden leg: if his home caught on fire, could he carry his wooden leg out of the house on the Sabbath?
One could spit on the Sabbath, but you had to be careful where.
If it landed on the dirt and you scuffed it with your sandal, you would be cultivating the soil and thus performing work.
The Sabbath, of course, was just one concern of those who would fence the Law.
The biggest concern of the Mishnah (some 186 pages) was “cleannesses,” and much of the concern here was with ritual washing.
This originally rose from the Biblical command that all priests must wash their hands (; ).
Though this was only a priestly requirement, all pious Jews began to do it about 200 years before Christ.
By Jesus’ day, it was firmly entrenched as a requirement for those who wanted to be “clean.”
They were washing all the time!
Before meals they would pour a little water over their hands, elevating them slightly so the water would run down to the wrist, and then would rub their hands together.
Next they would lower their hands and rinse them, allowing the water to run off their fingertips.
This was just for meals.
If they were returning from a place where they could be defiled, such as the marketplace, they went to greater extremes.
Some commentators think the language of our text means they took a bath!4
When it came to washing the dishes, they really got carried away.
The later Mishnah indicated something of the extremeness of their bent during Jesus’ time, for it devoted thirty-five pages to washing “vessels” and other daily implements.
During Jesus’ day the Scriptural rituals of purity were so fenced and re-fenced that the concept of true inner purity had been trivialized to a system of external washings
Our Lord had already violated their Sabbath traditions (), so the Jews were eager to accuse Him when they saw the disciples eat “with defiled hands.”
Why would such a seemingly trivial matter upset these religious leaders?
Why would they feel compelled to defend their ceremonial washings?
For one thing, these leaders resented it when our Lord openly flaunted their authority.
After all, these practices had been handed down from the fathers and carried with them the authority of the ages!
The Jews called tradition “the fence of the Law.”
It was not the Law that protected the tradition, but the tradition that protected the Law!
True Kingdom Minded believers don’t have with clean hands with dirty hearts
Outward conformity is no substitute for inward transformation
Jesus made it clear in the Sermon on the Mount that true holiness is a matter of inward affection and attitude and not just outward actions and associations.
It does us good to examine our church traditions in the light of God’s Word and to be courageous enough to make changes
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 134).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
refers to the body of doctrinal truth “handed down” from the Apostles to leaders in the church
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 134).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Why did Jesus call them Hypocrites ?
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Their actions were just merely external and didn’t come a pure heart
2. Their teachings were not from the heart of God but rather reflected the tradition of men
They were hypocrites, “playactors,” whose religious worship was practiced in vain.
True worship must come from the heart, and it must be directed by God’s truth, not man’s personal ideas.
What a tragedy that religious people would ignorantly practice their religion and become the worse for doing it!
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 134).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Tradition — a specific practice (of long standing) handed down from respected authorities.
Each new generation must engage in a similar conflict, for human nature is prone to hold on to worn-out man-made traditions and ignore or disobey the living Word of God.
It does us good to examine our church traditions in the light of God’s Word and to be courageous enough to make changes
refers to the body of doctrinal truth “handed down” from the Apostles to leaders in the church
Empty Worship
col 2
The “tradition” in question allowed any individual to call all his possessions “Corban” (see note on v. 11).
If a son became angry with his parents, he could declare his money and property “Corban.”
Since Scripture teaches that any vow made to God could not be violated (), his possessions could not be used for anything but service to God and not as a resource of financial assistance for his parents
True Kingdom Minded believers don’t look for a loop holes to avoid personal responsibility
MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.).
(1997).
The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1474).
Nashville, TN: Word Pub.
“to deprive of authority” to cancel
But they were not only destroying their character; they were also destroying the influence and authority of the very Word of God that they claimed to be defending.
Note the tragic sequence: teaching their doctrines as God’s Word (); laying aside God’s Word (); rejecting God’s Word (); finally, robbing God’s Word of its power ().
People who revere man-made traditions above the Word of God eventually lose the power of God’s Word in their lives.
No matter how devout they may appear, their hearts are far from God.
True Kingdom Minded believers don’t cancel or rob the Word of its authority because it bothers my traditions.
True Kingdom Minded believers understand that true defilement is a matter of the heart
Defile= to make common to make un pure
Mark 7
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