Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile. Mark 7:15 NABRE The Jews had many rules around ritual purity, feeling in order to be approached by the Sacred, they must be pure. Feeling that purity is affected…
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He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” Mark 7:14-15 NABRE Jesus was questioned by the religious leaders about His disciples…
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Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do will it. Be made clean.” And the leprosy left him immediately. Luke 5:13 NABRE Jesus traveling comes across a man covered with leprosy, a term that can refer to several diseases manifested in a skin rash or worse. The…
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The Lord said to him, “Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil.” Luke 11:39 NABRE A Pharisee invites Jesus to dine with him and is amazed when Jesus does not observe the prescribed washing before…
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Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Isaiah 6:5 NABRE This chapter of Isaiah opens with an account of how the Lord…
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