7:1 Now the Pharisees and some of the Torah scholars who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Yeshua.
7:2 And they saw that some of His disciples were eating bread with unclean hands, that is, not washed.
7:3 (For the Pharisees and all Jewish people do not eat unless they wash their hands up to the elbow, keeping the tradition of the elders.
7:4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing. There are many other traditions they have received and hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels.)
7:5 The Pharisees and Torah scholars questioned Yeshua, “Why don’t Your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders? Why do they eat bread with unwashed hands?”
7:6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me.
7:7 And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
7:8 Having left behind the commandment of God, you hold on to the tradition of men.”
7:9 He was also telling them, “You set aside the commands of God, in order that you may validate your own tradition.
7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’
7:11 But you say if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever you might have gained from me is korban (that is, an offering to God),’
7:12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
7:13 making void the word of God with your tradition that you’ve handed down. And you do many such things.”
7:14 Then Yeshua called the crowd again and began saying to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand.
7:15 There is nothing outside the man that can make him unholy by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.”
7:23 All these evil things come from within and make the man unholy.”
7:24 Yeshua got up and left from there to the region of Tyre. When He had entered a house, He didn’t want anyone to know; but He couldn’t escape notice.
7:25 A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him. She came immediately and fell at His feet.
7:26 The woman was a Greek, from Syrophoenicia. And she kept begging Yeshua to drive the demon out of her daughter.
7:27 He was telling her, “First let the children get their fill, for it’s not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
7:28 “Yes, Master,” she said to Him, “but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
7:29 Then He said to her, “Because of this word, go your way! 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 Again He left the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis.
7:32 They bring Him a deaf man who had a speech impediment, and they beg Him to lay His hand on him.
7:33 Yeshua took him aside from the crowd to a private place, and He put His fingers in the man’s ears. After spitting, He touched the man’s tongue.
7:34 Looking up to heaven, He says to the man, “Ephphatha,” which means “Be opened!”
7:35 Immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak plainly.
7:36 Yeshua ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more they continued proclaiming it.
7:37 People were completely astounded, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
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