Mark 7

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(Mar 7:1) Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
(Mar 7:2) And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
(Mar 7:3) For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
(Mar 7:4) 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.
(Mar 7:5) 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?
(Mar 7:6) 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.
(Mar 7:7) Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men.
(Mar 7:8) 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.
(Mar 7:9) And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
(Mar 7:10) For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
(Mar 7:11) 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}.
(Mar 7:12) And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
(Mar 7:13) Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
(Mar 7:14) And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:
(Mar 7:15) 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.
(Mar 7:16) If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
(Mar 7:17) And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
(Mar 7:18) 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;
(Mar 7:19) Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
(Mar 7:20) And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
(Mar 7:21) For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
(Mar 7:22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
(Mar 7:23) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
(Mar 7:24) 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.
(Mar 7:25) For a {certain} woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
(Mar 7:26) The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
(Mar 7:27) 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.
(Mar 7:28) And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
(Mar 7:29) And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
(Mar 7:30) And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
(Mar 7:31) 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.
(Mar 7:32) 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.
(Mar 7:33) And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
(Mar 7:34) And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
(Mar 7:35) And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
(Mar 7:36) 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};
(Mar 7:37) And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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