7 2 The Apostles are found fault with, for eating with unwashed hands. 4 The Pharisees’ traditions about washings, Hypocrites. 8 Men’s traditions more set by than God’s. 10 Parents must be honored. 15 The things that do indeed defile a man. 25 The woman of Canaan. 32 The deaf dumb man is healed.

¹ Then ^(A)[a]gathered unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the Scribes which came from Jerusalem.

² And when they saw some of his disciples ^[b]eat meat with ^[c]common hands, (that is to say, unwashen) they complained.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, ^[d]holding the traditions of the Elders.

⁴ And when they come from the ^[e]market, except they wash, they eat not: and many other things there be, which they have taken upon them to observe, as the washing of cups, and ^[f]pots, and of brazen vessels, and of beds.)

⁵ Then asked him the Pharisees and Scribes, Why ^[g]walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat meat with unwashen hands?

^6 [h]Then he answered and said unto them, Surely ^(B)Isaiah hath prophesied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with lips, but their heart is far away from me.

^7 [i]But they worship me in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

^8 [j]For ye lay the Commandments of God apart, and observe the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye do.

^9 [k]And he said unto them, Well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may observe your own tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, ^(C)Honor thy father and thy mother: and ^(D)Whosoever shall speak evil of father or mother, let him ^[l]die the death.

¹¹ But ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, that is, By the gift that is offered by me, thou mayest have profit, he shall be free.

¹² So ye suffer him no more to do anything for his father, or his mother.

¹³ Making the word of God of none authority, by your tradition which ye have ordained: and ye do many such like things.

^14 (E)Then he calleth the whole multitude unto him, and said unto them, Hearken you all unto me, and understand.

¹⁵ There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entereth into him: but the things which proceed out of him, are they which defile the man.

¹⁶ If any have ears to hear, let him hear.

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

¹⁸ And he said unto them, What? are ye without understanding also? Do ye not know that whatsoever thing from without entereth into a man, cannot defile him,

¹⁹ Because it entered not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the ^[m]purging of all meats?

²⁰ Then he said, That which cometh out of man, that defileth man.

^21 (F)For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²² Thefts, ^[n]covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a ^[o]wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.

²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.

²⁴ ¶ ^(G)[p]And from thence he rose, and went into the ^[q]borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would that no man should have known: but he could not be hid.

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

²⁶ (And the woman was a ^[r]Greek, a ^[s]Syro-Phoenician by nation) and she besought him that he would cast out the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be fed: for it is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto ^[t]whelps.

²⁸ Then she answered, and said unto him, ^[u]Truth, Lord: yet indeed the whelps eat under the table of the children’s crumbs.

²⁹ Then he said unto her, For this saying go thy way: the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰ And when she was come home to her house, she found the devil departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.

³¹ ¶ ^[v]And he departed again from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of ^[w]Decapolis.

³² And they brought unto him one that was deaf and stammered in his speech, and prayed him to put his hand upon him.

³³ Then he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his ears, and did spit, and touched his tongue.

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

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

³⁶ And he commanded them that they should tell no man: but how much soever he forbade them, the more a great deal they published it,

³⁷ And were beyond measure astonied, saying, He hath done all things well: ^(H)He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.