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7:1  And the Pharisees and some of the scribes *gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,
7:2  and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with defiled hands, that is, unwashed.
7:3  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;
7:4  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)
7:5  And the Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?”
7:6  And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.
7:7  But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commands of men.’
7:8  Leaving the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
7:9  And He was also saying to them, “You are good at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.
7:10  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;
7:11  but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever you might benefit from me is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’
7:12  you no longer leave him to do anything for his father or his mother;
7:13  thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
7:14  And after He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:
7:15  there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
7:16  [And if anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ]
7:17  And when He had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples were asking Him about the parable.
7:18  And He *said to them, “Are you lacking understanding in this way as well? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
7:19  because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and goes to the sewer?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
7:20  And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
7:21  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries,
7:22  coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
7:23  All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”
7:24  Now Jesus stood up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He was wanting no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.
7:25  But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet.
7:26  Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician descent. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
7:27  And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
7:28  But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.”
7:29  And He said to her, “Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
7:30  And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.
7:31  And again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis.
7:32  And they *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *pleaded with Him to lay His hand on him.
7:33  And Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue;
7:34  and looking up to heaven with a sigh, He *said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”
7:35  And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.
7:36  And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He was ordering them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it.
7:37  And they were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”