Mak7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,
Mak7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
Mak7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;
Mak7:4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. )
Mak7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"
Mak7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
Mak7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'
Mak7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."
Mak7:9 Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!
Mak7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.'
Mak7:11 But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban' (that is, an offering to God )--
Mak7:12 then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,
Mak7:13 thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this."
Mak7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
Mak7:15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."
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Mak7:17 When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
Mak7:18 He said to them, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
Mak7:19 since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Mak7:20 And he said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
Mak7:21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
Mak7:22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
Mak7:23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
Mak7:24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
Mak7:25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
Mak7:26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mak7:27 He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
Mak7:28 But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
Mak7:29 Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go-- the demon has left your daughter."
Mak7:30 So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Mak7:31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
Mak7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
Mak7:33 He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.
Mak7:34 Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
Mak7:35 And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
Mak7:36 Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Mak7:37 They were astounded beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."