MARK 7:16 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

AICNT [[If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear]]” [fn]

7:16, If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear: Some manuscripts include verse 16.

OEB [fn]

7:16 Some later manuscripts add: Let anyone with ears to hear, listen.

WEBBE If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”[fn]

7:16 NU omits verse 16.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET [fn]

7:16 [[EMPTY]]

LSV [[If any has ears to hear—let him hear.”]]

FBV [fn]

7:16 The earliest manuscripts do not have verse 16.

TCNT [fn]If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. 97.6% ¦ — ANT NA SBL TH WH 1.1% {Note: ECM encloses this text with double brackets.}

T4T 15-16 Nothing that people eat causes God to consider them to be unacceptable. On the contrary, it is that which comes from people’s ◄inner beings/hearts► that causes God to reject them.”

LEB No LEB MARK 7:16 verse available

BBE []

Moff If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen to this.'

Wymth

ASV [fn]

7:16 Many ancient authorities insert v. 16. If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. See Mrk 4:9,23.

DRA If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

YLT If any hath ears to hear — let him hear.'

Drby If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.

RV [fn]

7:16 Many ancient authorities insert ver. 16 If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

SLT If any have ears to hear, let him hear.

Wbstr If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

KJB-1769 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

KJB-1611 If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Gnva If any haue eares to heare, let him heare.
(If any have ears to hear, let him hear. )

Cvdl Yf eny man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

TNT If eny man have eares to heare let him heare
(If any man have ears to hear let him hear )

Wycl If ony man haue eeris of hering, here he.
(If any man have ears of hearing, here he.)

Luth Hat jemand Ohren zu hören, der höre!
(Hat someone ears to/for hear/listen, the/of_the listen!)

ClVg Si quis habet aures audiendi, audiat.
(When/But_if who/any has ears to_listen, hear. )

UGNT [fn] [Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.]
( [Ei tis eⱪei ōta akouein akouetō.])

Some ancient manuscripts include verse 16.

SBL-GNT No SBL-GNT MARK 7:16 verse available

RP-GNT Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.
(Ei tis eⱪei ōta akouein akouetō.)

TC-GNT [fn]Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.
(Ei tis eⱪei ōta akouein akouetō. )

7:16 ει τις εχει ωτα ακουειν ακουετω 97.6% ¦ — ANT NA SBL TH WH 1.1% {Note: ECM encloses this text with double brackets.}

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 7:1–23: Jesus explained what makes a person unclean

This section (7:1–23) deals with the difference between ritual uncleanness and real moral uncleanness. Ritual uncleanness is external, but real uncleanness involves the inner being of a person. Mark introduced this topic by describing an incident in which the Pharisees and teachers of the law rebuked Jesus. They did this because his disciples ate without first performing the hand-washing ceremony required by Jewish tradition (7:1–5).

Jesus did not respond to their rebuke directly. Instead, he gave an example of how these leaders ignored God’s law in order to follow their own traditions (7:6–13). Jesus then explained to the crowd that true uncleanness in God’s sight is not caused by external things. It is not caused by things such as food going into the body. True uncleanness is caused by sinful things that a person does or says. Those things come from a person’s inner being (7:14–23).

It is good to translate this section before you decide on a heading for it.

Here are some other possible headings for this section:

Ritual uncleanness is not what causes God to consider a person unclean

Jesus teaches about what defiles a person

There are parallel passages for this section in Matthew 15:1–20 and Luke 11:37–39.

Paragraph 7:14–16

In this paragraph, Jesus again spoke to the crowd. He explained to them that what defiles a person is not something external like food that goes into a person’s body. Rather, what defiles a person in God’s sight are the sinful things that come from inside him. Jesus implied that the Pharisees and teachers of the law were wrong to focus on external rituals such as hand-washing.

7:16

[Most English versions do not translate this verse. See the Notes on 7:16.]

There is a textual issue here. It concerns the verse that the NASB translates as: “If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Some Greek manuscripts do not include this verse. (BSB, NIV, GNT, RSV, CEV, NCV, NLT, NET, JBP, NASB, NRSV, REB)
Other Greek manuscripts include this verse. For example, the GW says:
¹⁶Let the person who has ears listen! (GW, NASB, NJB, KJV)

It is recommended that you follow option (1), since it has the support of some of the oldest and most reliable manuscripts.Although 7:16 is present in the majority of manuscripts, it is absent from the oldest and most reliable manuscripts. (Metzger page 81, Swanson page 109) If you follow this option, it is good to include this verse as a footnote. Here is an example footnote:

Some Greek manuscripts include 7:16, which says: “If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”

If the major language version in your area includes this verse in the text, you may want to include it in brackets, as the NASB does.

If you put 7:16 in a footnote, here are several ways to number the verses:

Put the number 16 after the number 15. For example, the CEV says:
^15–16The food that you put into your mouth doesn’t make you unclean…
Put in the number 16 after the last word of 15, and have the footnote marker after it. For example, the NCV says:
¹⁵“…There is nothing people put into their bodies that makes them unclean. People are made unclean by the things that come out of them.” ¹⁶ ‡ ¹⁷When Jesus left the people…
Do not include the number 16. Put the footnote after verse 15. For example, the NLT96 says:
¹⁵“…You are not defiled by what you eat; you are defiled by what you say and do! ‡ ” ¹⁷Then Jesus went into a house…

For advice on translating this verse, see how you translated the similar text in 4:23.

Parallel MARK 7:16

Section 7:1–23: Jesus explained what makes a person unclean

Paragraph 7:14–16

7:16