Mark 7: Traditions and the Heart

Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for setting aside God's commands to keep human traditions and teaches that evil comes from within the heart. He grants a Syrophoenician woman's plea for her daughter and heals a deaf man with a speech impediment.

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Jesus condemns a practice called 'Corban' in Mark 7:9-13. What was wrong with it?

It was a tax collected by Rome disguised as a religious giftIt was a temple offering that God had commanded in the law of MosesPeople used it as a religious loophole to avoid the command to care for their parentsIt required giving all of one's possessions to the poor instead of to parents