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1 - Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

2 - Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

3 - (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4 - They don't eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

5 - The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

6 - He answered 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 they worship me in vain,teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'Isaiah 29:13

8 - "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men-the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

9 - He said to them,"Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

10 - For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9

11 - But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God";'

But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God";'

12 - then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

13 - making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

14 - He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them,"Hear me, all of you, and understand.

15 - There is nothing from outside of 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 anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

17 - When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

18 - He said to them,"Are you also without understanding? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

19 - because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

20 - He said,"That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

21 - For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

22 - covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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

24 - From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.

25 - For 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. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

27 - But Jesus said to her,"Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

28 - But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

29 - He said to her,"For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

30 - She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

31 - Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.

32 - They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

33 - He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

34 - Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him,"Ephphatha!" that is,"Be opened!"

35 - Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

36 - He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.