7:1 Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.
7:2 And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.
7:4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)
7:5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"
7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7:7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'
7:8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition."
7:9 He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'
7:11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),
7:12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
7:13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."
7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
7:15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."
7:23 All these evils come from within and defile a person."
7:24 After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.
7:25 Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
7:26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
7:27 He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."
7:28 She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
7:29 Then he said to her, "Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."
7:30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
7:31 Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
7:33 After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man's ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.
7:34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, "Ephphatha" (that is, "Be opened").
7:35 And immediately the man's ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.
7:36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.
7:37 People were completely astounded and said, "He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
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