| 1 | And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, |
| 2 | and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. |
| 3 | (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; |
| 4 | and [when they come] from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.) |
| 5 | And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? |
| 6 | And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. |
| 7 | But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men. |
| 8 | Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. |
| 9 | And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. |
| 10 | For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: |
| 11 | but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God]; |
| 12 | ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; |
| 13 | making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. |
| 14 | And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: |
| 15 | there is nothing from without 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 | [If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.] |
| 17 | And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable. |
| 18 | And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; |
| 19 | because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean. |
| 20 | And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. |
| 21 | For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, |
| 22 | covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: |
| 23 | all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man. |
| 24 | And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid. |
| 25 | But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. |
| 26 | Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. |
| 27 | And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. |
| 28 | But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. |
| 29 | And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter. |
| 30 | And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out. |
| 31 | And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. |
| 32 | And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. |
| 33 | And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; |
| 34 | and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. |
| 35 | And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. |
| 36 | And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. |
| 37 | And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. |