[1] Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the
scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, [2] they saw that some of his
disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. [3] (For the
Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands,
observing the tradition of the elders; [4] and when they come from the
market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are
many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and
vessels of bronze.) [5] And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why
do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but
eat with hands defiled?" [6] And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy
of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me; [7] in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' [8] You leave the commandment
of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." [9] And he said to them, "You
have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your
tradition! [10] For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and,
`He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; [11] but you
say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained
from me is Corban' (that is, given to God)-- [12] then you no longer permit
him to do anything for his father or mother, [13] thus making void the word
of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you
do." [14] And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear
me, all of you, and understand: [15] there is nothing outside a man which
by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man
are what defile him." [16] And when he had entered the house, and left the
people, his disciples asked him about the parable. [17] And he said to
them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that
whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, [18] since it
enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared
all foods clean.) [19] And he said, "What comes out of a man is what
defiles a man. [20] For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil
thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, [21] coveting, wickedness,
deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. [22] All these
evil things come from within, and they defile a man." [23] And from there
he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a
house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid. [24]
But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean
spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet. [25] Now the
woman was a Greek, a Syrophoeni'cian by birth. And she begged him to cast
the demon out of her daughter. [26] And he said to her, "Let the children
first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it
to the dogs." [27] But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs
under the table eat the children's crumbs." [28] And he said to her, "For
this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter." [29]
And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.
[30] Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to
the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap'olis. [31] And they
brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and
they besought him to lay his hand upon him. [32] And taking him aside from
the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and
touched his tongue; [33] and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to
him, "Eph'phatha," that is, "Be opened." [34] And his ears were opened, his
tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. [35] And he charged them to tell
no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed
it. [36] And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all
things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."