Mark 7:1-36 ASV14 - Bible AI

¹And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem.

²And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands, they found fault.

³(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

⁴and [when they come] from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels, and beds).

⁵Then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

⁶And answering he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

⁷But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

⁸Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men: the washing of pots and cups, and many other such like things ye do.

⁹And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

¹⁰For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

¹¹but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban (that is to say, Given [to God]);

¹²and ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

¹³making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

¹⁴And he called to him all the multitude, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:

¹⁵there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

¹⁶If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁷And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

¹⁸And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;

¹⁹because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.

²⁰And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

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

²²thefts, covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:

²³all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

²⁴And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into the house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.

²⁵For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

²⁷And Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs.

²⁸But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; for even the little dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁹And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰And she went away unto her house, and found the demon gone out, and the child laid upon the bed.

³¹And again, having come out from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.

³²And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.

³³And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;

³⁴and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

³⁵And straightway his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

³⁶And 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.