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7:1  Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
7:2  they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
7:3  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders,
7:4  and when they come from the market-place, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)
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 with defiled hands?”
7:6  And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
7:7  in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
7:8  You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
7:9  And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
7:10  For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
7:11  But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—
7:12  then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
7:13  thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
7:14  And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:
7:15  There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
7:17  And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
7:18  And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
7:19  since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
7:20  And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
7:21  For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
7:22  coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
7:23  All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
7:24  And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.
7:25  But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
7:26  Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
7:27  And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”
7:28  But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”
7:29  And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”
7:30  And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
7:31  Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
7:32  And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
7:33  And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.
7:34  And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha”, that is, “Be opened.”
7:35  And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
7:36  And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
7:37  And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”