Mark 7

²And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

³For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

⁴And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to hold, such as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

⁵Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

⁶He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁷However, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

⁸For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups, and many other such things you do.

⁹And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

¹⁰For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death.

¹¹But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me, he shall be free.

¹²And you allow him no more to do anything for his father or his mother,

¹³making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered; and many such like things you do.

¹⁴And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen to me every one of you, and understand:

¹⁵There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

¹⁶If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁷And when he had entered into the house away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

¹⁸And he said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever thing from outside enters into the man, it cannot defile him,

¹⁹because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

²⁰And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.

²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²²thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

²³all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

²⁴And from there he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

²⁵For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet.

²⁶The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.

²⁸And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁹And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter.

³⁰And when she had come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

³¹And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

³²And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

³³And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;

³⁴and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

³⁵And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

³⁶And 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;

³⁷and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.