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¹ And there are gathered together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,² and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands.³ -For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, don't eat, holding the tradition of the elders;⁴ and [when they come] from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they don't eat; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and bronze vessels, and beds.-⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?⁶ And he said to them, Isaiah prophesied well of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.⁷ But in vain they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.⁸ You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.⁹ And he said to them, Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that your tradition might be established.¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death:¹¹ but you say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That with which you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];¹² you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother;¹³ making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things you do.¹⁴ And he called to him the multitude again, and said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand:¹⁵ there is nothing from outside the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.¹⁷ And when he had entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.¹⁸ And he says to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever from outside goes into the man, [it] can't defile him;¹⁹ because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and goes out into the toilet? [This he said], making all meats clean.²⁰ And he said, That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.²¹ For from inside, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,²² greed, wickednesses, deceit, sexual immorality, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:²³ all these evil things proceed from inside, and defile the man.

²⁴ And from there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.²⁵ But right away a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she implored him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.²⁷ And he said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.²⁸ But she answered and says to him, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.²⁹ And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.³⁰ And she went away to her house, and found the child laid on the bed, and the demon gone out.

³¹ And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.³² And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they urge him to lay his hand on him.³³ And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;³⁴ and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.³⁵ And immediately his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke 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 they were astonished beyond measure, saying, He has done all things well; he makes even the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.