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(1) Then the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, came together to him, who came from Jerusalem.

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

(3) For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands up to the elbow, they do not eat, holding to the tradition of the elders.

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

(5) Then 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?"

(6) He answered and said to 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) But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

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

(9) He said to them, "Full well YOU reject the commandment of God, so that YOU may keep YOUR own tradition.

(10) For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

(11) But YOU say, 'If a man shall say to his father or mother, "Whatever you might have profited by me, it is Corban, that is to say, a gift to God;" '

(12) Then YOU no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

(13) making the word of God of no effect through YOUR tradition, which YOU have handed down, and many such like things that YOU do."

(14) When he had called all the people to himself, he said to them, "Listen to me everyone of YOU, and understand:

(15) There is nothing from outside a man, that enters into him can defile him, but the things which come out of him, those are what defile the man.

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

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

(18) So he said to them, "Are YOU also without understanding? Do YOU not perceive, that whatever thing from outside that enters into the man, it cannot defile him,

(19) because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the sewer, purging all foods?"

(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, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

(22) thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

(23) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

(24) And from there he arose, and went into the regions of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and desired that no man know of it, but he could not be hidden.

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

(26) The woman was a Greek, of Syrophenician descent; and she begged him that he would cast the devil out of her daughter.

(27) But Jesus said to her, "Let the children first be filled; for it is not right to take the children’s bread, and to throw it to the dogs."

(28) And she answered and said to him, "Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs."

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

(30) And when she came to her house, she found the devil had gone out, and her daughter was lying on the bed.

(31) Again, departing from the regions of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

(32) And they brought to him one who was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged him to put his hand on him.

(33) Then he took him aside away from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

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

(35) Then immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

(36) And he commanded them that they should tell no man; but the more he commanded them, so much the more exceedingly they proclaimed it;

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