1And there are gathered together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders; 4and when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, they do not eat; and there are many other things, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brass vessels.) 5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? 6And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. 7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. 8You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9And he said to them, Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death: 11but you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; 12you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother; 13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such things you do. 14And he called to him the multitude again, and said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand: 15there is nothing outside the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. 16 17And when he had entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18And he says to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever from outside goes into the man, it cannot defile him; 19because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and goes out into the latrine? —cleansing all foods. 20And he said, What proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 21For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: 23all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man. 24And from there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hidden. 25But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. 27And he said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not right to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. 28But she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. 29And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter. 30And she went away to her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out. 31And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. 32And they bring to him one who was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beg him to lay his hand upon him. 33And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; 34and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. 36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they proclaimed it. 37And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well; he makes even the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.