Mark 7:12-37

CAB(i) 12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or for his mother, 13 thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do." 14 And having summoned all the crowd, He said to them, "Hear Me, all of you and understand: 15 There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him, can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" 17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples were asking Him about the parable. 18 So He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter into his heart but into the stomach, and passes into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?" 20 And He said, "That which comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man." 24 From there He arose and He went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. And having entered into a house, He wanted no one to know it, but He was not able to escape notice. 25 For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race, and she was asking Him to cast the demon out from her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs." 28 And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs underneath the table eat from the crumbs of the children." 29 Then He said to her, "Because of this saying, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter." 30 And going away to her house, she found the demon having gone out, and her daughter having been placed on the bed. 31 Again, coming out from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He went to the Sea of Galilee, in the midst of the region of Decapolis. 32 Then they brought to Him a deaf man impeded in speech, and they begged Him that He would lay His hand upon him. 33 And when he had taken him aside from the crowd privately, He put His fingers in his ears, and having spit, He touched his tongue. 34 Then looking up into heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." 35 Immediately his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking correctly. 36 And He ordered them that they should tell no one; but the more He ordered them, the more exceedingly they would proclaim it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."