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title: Mark 7
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createdAt: 2024-09-01T02:17:59.501Z
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**1 **Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. **2 **And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. **3 **For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash *their* hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. **4 **And *when they come* from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, *as* the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. **5 **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?

**6 **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 **Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching *for* doctrines the commandments of men.

**8 **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.

**9 **And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. **10 **For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: **11 **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*. **12 **And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; **13 **Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

**14 **And when he had called all the people *unto him*, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one *of you*, and understand: **15 **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. **16 **If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

**17 **And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. **18 **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; **19 **Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? **20 **And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. **21 **For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, **22 **Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: **23 **All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

**24 **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. **25 **For a *certain* woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: **26 **The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. **27 **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. **28 **And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. **29 **And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. **30 **And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

**31 **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. **32 **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. **33 **And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; **34 **And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. **35 **And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. **36 **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*; **37 **And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.