Mark 7:6
Context7:6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart 1 is far from me.
Mark 7:19
Context7:19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” 2 (This means all foods are clean.) 3
Mark 12:30
Context12:30 Love 4 the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 5
1 tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.
2 tn Or “into the latrine.”
3 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
4 tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).
5 sn A quotation from Deut 6:4-5 and Josh 22:5 (LXX). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.