Mark 7

ABU^{(i) 1} AND there come together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes, who came from Jerusalem. ² And seeing some of his disciples eating bread with defiled (that is, unwashen) hands, they found fault. ³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they carefully wash their hands, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders. ⁴ And coming from the market, except they immerse themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they received to hold, immersions of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands? ⁶ And he said to them: Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites; as it is written: This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. ⁷ But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men. ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, immersions of pots and cups; and many other such things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them: Well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die. ¹¹ But ye say: If a man say to his father or his mother, It is Corban (that is, a gift) whatever thou mightest be profited with from me—; ¹² and ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother, ¹³ annulling the word of God by your tradition, which ye handed down. And many such things ye do. ¹⁴ And again calling to him the multitude, he said to them: Hearken to me every one, and understand. ¹⁵ There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him; but the things that come out of him, these are they that defile the man. ¹⁶ If any one has ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁷ And when he entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. ¹⁸ And he says to them: Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatever from without enters into the man can not defile him? ¹⁹ Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the drain, cleansing all food. ²⁰ And he said: That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things come forth from within, and defile the man. ²⁴ And rising up he departed thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and entering into a house, he desired that no one should know it. And he could not be hidden. ²⁵ For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, hearing of him, came and fell at his feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter. ²⁷ And he said to her: Let the children first be filled; for it is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. ²⁸ And she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. ²⁹ And he said to her: For this saying go thy way; the demon has gone out of thy daughter. ³⁰ And departing to her house, she found the little child laid on the bed, and the demon gone out. ³¹ And again going forth out of the borders of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. ³² And 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. ³³ And taking him aside from the multitude he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, touched his tongue, ³⁴ and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him: Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ³⁵ And straightway his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. ³⁶ And he charged them that they should tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more abundantly they published it; ³⁷ and were beyond measure astonished, saying: He has done all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.