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| 7:1 |
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,
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| 7:2 |
they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
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| 7:3 |
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;
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| 7:4 |
and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. )
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| 7:5 |
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"
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| 7:6 |
He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
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| 7:7 |
in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'
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| 7:8 |
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."
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| 7:9 |
Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!
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| 7:10 |
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.'
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| 7:11 |
But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban' (that is, an offering to God )--
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| 7:12 |
then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,
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| 7:13 |
thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this."
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| 7:14 |
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
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| 7:15 |
there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."
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| 7:16 |
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| 7:17 |
When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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| 7:18 |
He said to them, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
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| 7:19 |
since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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| 7:20 |
And he said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
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| 7:21 |
For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
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| 7:22 |
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
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| 7:23 |
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
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| 7:24 |
From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
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| 7:25 |
but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
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| 7:26 |
Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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| 7:27 |
He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
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| 7:28 |
But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
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| 7:29 |
Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go-- the demon has left your daughter."
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| 7:30 |
So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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| 7:31 |
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
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| 7:32 |
They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
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| 7:33 |
He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.
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| 7:34 |
Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
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| 7:35 |
And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
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| 7:36 |
Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
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| 7:37 |
They were astounded beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."
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