1 T hen the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

2 N ow when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

3 ( For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4 T hey don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

5 T he Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

6 H e answered 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 B ut they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8 “ For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

9 H e said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

10 F or Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

11 B ut you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’

12 t hen you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

13 m aking void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

14 H e called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

15 T here is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

16 I f anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

17 W hen he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

18 H e said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

19 b ecause it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods ?”

20 H e said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

21 F or from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

22 c ovetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

23 A ll these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

24 F rom there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.

25 F or a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

26 N ow the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

27 B ut Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

28 B ut she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

29 H e said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

30 S he went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

31 A gain he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.

32 T hey brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

33 H e took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

34 L ooking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

35 I mmediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

36 H e commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

37 T hey were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”