1Then the Pharisees came together to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem.
2They saw that some of his disciples ate bread with defiled hands, that is, with unwashed hands, and they found fault.
3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands often, holding to the tradition of the elders.
4And when they come from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things they have received and hold to, such as the washing of cups, and pots, and brass vessels, and tables.
5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?"
6He answered them, "Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.'"
7"But they worship me in vain, teaching as their doctrines the commandments of men."
8"For you lay aside the commandment of God, and you hold to the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups. And you do many other things like that."
9And he said to them, "You do well at setting aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your own tradition."
10"For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever curses father or mother, let him surely die.'"
11"And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,"
12"making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
13Then he called all the people to him and said to them, "Listen to me, every one of you, and understand."
14"There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him. But the things which come out of him, those are what defile the man."
15"If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
16When he had gone into the house, away from the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
17And he said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him?"
18"For it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and then passes out into the drain, and so all foods are made clean."
19And he said, "What comes out of a man, that is what defiles the man."
20"For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders,"
21"thefts, greed, wickedness, deceit, shameless living, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness."
22"All these evil things come from within, and they defile the man."
23Then he got up and went from there into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know it, but he could not be hidden.
24For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard about him. She came and fell at his feet.
25The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by birth. She begged him to drive the devil out of her daughter.
26But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be fed first. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
27She answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
28And he said to her, "Because you have said this, go your way. The devil has gone out of your daughter."
29When she came to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.
30Again he left the region of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.
31They brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they begged him to put his hand on him.
32He took him aside, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
33Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
34At once his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.
35He ordered them to tell no one. But the more he ordered them, the more widely they spread the news.
36They were astonished beyond measure, and said, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."