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Mark 7:2

First Nations Version

They noticed that some of his followers had not ceremonially washed their hands before eating the food.

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“As all of you must know,” he said to them, “it is against our law for a Tribal Member like myself to have anything to do with someone from an Outside Nation. But Creator has helped me to see that I should not consider anyone to be impure or unclean.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One has shown me that no food by nature is ceremonially impure, but if someone considers it to be impure, for that person it is impure.


“‘I cannot! O Honored One,’ I answered, ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’


“Why do your followers not keep the traditions given by the elders and wash their hands before they eat?” they accused him.


So the Separated Ones (Pharisees) and the scroll keepers asked him, “Why do your followers not walk in the traditions of the elders and ceremonially wash their hands before eating?”


The Separated One (Pharisee) was upset that he did not ceremonially wash his hands before eating.


How much worse punishment do you think is deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of the Great Spirit, who treats the lifeblood of the peace treaty that makes us holy as having no value, and treats with disrespect the Spirit who gives us the gift of his great kindness?


Nothing impure or anyone who participates in shameful ways will go through the gates. Only the ones whose names are written down in the Lamb’s book of life will be able to enter.





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