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Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.
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Mark 7:8 — “Laying Aside the Commandment of God”: Has the Rebuke Been Shortened?
Both forms accuse the Pharisees of abandoning God’s command for human tradition. The received text then repeats the vessel washings and says they do many similar things; the critical text omits that illustrative close.
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Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”
The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.
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Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim
The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby declared all foods clean.
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Mark 7:24 — The Borders of Tyre and Sidon: Does “Sidon” Belong?
The received destination names both Tyre and Sidon. The critical text names only Tyre, although verse 31 later describes Jesus traveling through Sidon on the return toward Galilee.
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Mark 8:15 — The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of the Herodians?
The main received and critical texts warn against the leaven of Herod. Some witnesses substitute “the Herodians,” probably recalling the political group named elsewhere in Mark.
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Mark 8:26 — “Neither Go into the Town, nor Tell It to Any in the Town”
After healing the blind man, the received text gives two prohibitions: do not enter the village and do not report the healing there. The critical text keeps only the first command in a compressed form.
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Mark 8:35 — “For My Sake and the Gospel’s”: Is the Gospel Clause Authentic?
The received and principal critical texts include both loyalties: Christ and the gospel. A limited variant omits the gospel clause, often under influence from the shorter Synoptic parallels.
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Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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Mark 9:24 — “Lord, I Believe” and “with Tears”: The Full Cry of the Child’s Father
The received cry includes tears and addresses Jesus as Lord. The shorter critical form retains the father’s confession and plea but omits both details.
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Mark 9:29 — “Prayer and Fasting”: What Did Christ Prescribe?
The received answer requires prayer and fasting. The critical text retains prayer but omits fasting, often treating it as an ascetic addition from later church practice.
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Mark 9:42 — “These Little Ones Which Believe in Me”: Do the Final Words Belong?
The phrase “in me” is strongly supported and present in the received text, but some early witnesses omit it. The words define the little ones by faith rather than age alone.
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