Mark 7:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) The Pharisees and some experts in the Law of Moses, who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around Jesus. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW THERE gathered together to [Jesus] the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, American Standard Version (1901) And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, Common English Bible The Pharisees and some legal experts from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version AND there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem. |
And the experts in the Law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], “He has Beelzebub [in him],” and “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”
They had observed some of His disciples eating their food with contaminated, that is, [ceremonially] unwashed hands.
And it happened on one of those days [in Capernaum. See Mark 2:1], as Jesus was teaching, that some Pharisees [i.e., a strict sect of the Jewish religion] and teachers of the Law of Moses, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, were sitting around [i.e., listening to Him]. And the power of the Lord was with Him, enabling Him to heal people.