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And there are gathered together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
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and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the
elders;
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and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there
are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
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And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
their bread with defiled hands?
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And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
This people honoreth me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
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But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
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You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
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And he said to them, Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
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but you say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith you might have been profited by me is
Corban, that is to say, Given to God;
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you no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;
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making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things you do.
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And he called to him the multitude again, and said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
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there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man
are those that defile the man.
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And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
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And he says to them, Are you so without understanding also? Perceive you not, that whatever from without goes into
the man, it cannot defile him;
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because it goes not into his heart, but into his belly, and goes out into the draught?
This he said, making all meats clean.
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And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defiles the man.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
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covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
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all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
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And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have
no man know it; and he could not be hid.
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But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his
feet.
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Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she implored him that he would cast forth the demon out of her
daughter.
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And he said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to
the dogs.
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But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
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And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the demon is gone out of your daughter.
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And she went away to her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
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And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the
borders of Decapolis.
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And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon
him.
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And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his
tongue;
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and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
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And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plain.
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And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
published it.
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And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well; he makes even the deaf to hear, and the
dumb to speak.