Mark 07: Healing Inside and Out

Jesus challenges religious leaders about empty rituals while demonstrating his power to heal both inner spiritual afflictions and outward physical conditions in Mark 7. • Religious leaders criticize Jesus because his disciples don't follow hand-washing traditions • Jesus confronts their hypocrisy by showing how they use traditions to avoid caring for parents • True defilement comes from the heart, not from what we eat or external factors • Jesus helps a Gentile woman by healing her daughter ...