Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? (7:5)

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me (7:6)

Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men (7:7)

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. (7:8) com1

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. (7:9) com2

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: (7:10)

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free] (7:11)

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; (7:12)

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. (7:13) com3

And when he had called all the people [unto him], he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one [of you], and understand: (7:14)

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man (7:15)

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear (7:16)

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable (7:17)

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; (7:18)

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? (7:19)

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man (7:20)

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (7:21)

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (7:22)

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man (7:23)

And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know [it]: but he could not be hid (7:24)

For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: (7:25)

The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter (7:26)

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the dogs (7:27)

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs (7:28)

And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. (7:29) com4

And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed (7:30)

And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis (7:31)

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him (7:32)

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; (7:33)

And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened (7:34)

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain (7:35)

And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published [it]; (7:36)

And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak (7:37)

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