Gen Z: Mark 7
1The Pharisees and some scribes pulled up on Him from Jerusalem, no cap.
2They peeped some of His squad munching bread with dirty hands and were like, "Sus."
3The Pharisees and all the Jews won’t eat unless they wash their hands first, keeping it old school.
4When they come back from the market, they gotta wash up, or no food for them. They got a whole list of rules, like washing cups and pots.
5The Pharisees and scribes were like, "Why don’t your crew follow the old traditions and eat with clean hands?"
6He hit them with, "Isaiah was totally right about you fakes; you honor me with your words, but your hearts are miles away."
7They’re just vibing in vain, teaching human rules instead of the real deal.
8You ditch God’s commandments to hold onto your own traditions, like washing pots and cups, and it’s kind of wild.
9He said, "You’re doing great at rejecting God’s rules to keep your own traditions, fr."
10Moses said, "Respect your parents," and if you curse them, you’re out for real.
11But y'all say, if a dude tells his fam, "It's Corban," meaning a gift, he can just bounce.
12And you let him dip on doing anything for his parents; that's sus.
13You're making God's word useless with your traditions, which you've passed down; that’s just savage.
14Then he called everyone over and was like, "Listen up, fam, and get this."
15Nothing outside a dude can mess him up; it's what comes out that’s the real tea.
16If you got ears, fam, you better listen.
17When he got back inside, his crew asked him about the parable, like, "What’s good?"
18He was like, "Y’all still not getting it? Anything that comes from outside can't mess you up."
19It doesn’t hit the heart, just the stomach, and then it exits, cleaning out all the food.
20He said, "What comes outta a man, that’s what messes him up."
21From deep inside, straight from the heart, come all these sus thoughts, cheating, hookups, and even murders, fr.
22Thievery, jealousy, wicked vibes, deceit, wild behavior, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and just plain foolishness:
23All these bad vibes come from within and totally mess up a person.
24Then he bounced to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, hit up a house, and wanted to keep it on the low, but he couldn’t stay hidden.
25A woman, whose young daughter had a nasty spirit, heard about him and came to him, falling at his feet like, "Help me!"
26She was Greek, a Syrophenician, and she was begging him to kick that devil out of her daughter.
27But Jesus was like, "Chill, let the kids eat first; it ain't right to take their bread and throw it to the dogs."
28She replied, "For sure, Lord: but even the dogs under the table get to munch on the kids' crumbs."
29He said, "Because of that reply, you can bounce; the devil's outta your daughter."
30When she got home, she found the devil gone and her daughter chilling on the bed, all good.
31So he dipped out from Tyre and Sidon, cruised to the sea of Galilee, hitting up the Decapolis vibes.
32They brought a dude who couldn’t hear and had some speech issues, begging him to lay hands and fix it.
33He pulled him aside from the crowd, stuck his fingers in his ears, spat, and touched his tongue; that’s some wild stuff.
34He looked up to heaven, sighed, and said, “Ephphatha,” which means, “Open up!”
35Right away, his ears popped open, his tongue was free, and he started talking like a champ.
36He told them to keep it on the down-low, but the more he said that, the more they spread the word; no cap.
37They were shook, saying, “He’s done everything fire: making the deaf hear and the mute speak, fr.”