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          DASV: Mark 7    

1 The Pharisees and certain of the scribes, who had come from
Jerusalem gathered together around Jesus.
2 They observed that some of his disciples ate their bread with
unclean, that is, unwashed hands.
3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat except
they ritually wash their hands, holding to the tradition
of the elders;
4 when they come from the market, they do not eat unless
they wash and they hold many other traditions such as the
washings of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)
5 Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your
disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders,
but eat their bread with unclean hands?"
6 He said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites,
as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but
their heart is far from me.
7 In vain they worship me, teaching as doctrine the commandments
of men.'
8 You reject the commandment of God, but hold fast to the tradition
of men."

9 Then he said to them, "You have a convenient way of rejecting
the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and,
'He who insults either father or mother, should be put to death.'
11 but you say, 'If a person should say to his father or mother,
'Whatever you might have benefited from me is Corban, that is
to say, a gift to God'
12 you no longer allow him to do anything in supporting his father
or his mother.
13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition, that you have
handed down and you do many things like that.

14 Then he called to crowd again, and said to them, "Hear me all
of you, and understand;
15 there is nothing from outside a person, that going into him
can defile him; but the things which come out of a person those
are the things that defile him.
16 [Some manuscripts have: If anyone has ears to hear, let
him hear.]
17 When he entered the house away from the crowd, his disciples
asked him about the parable.
18 Then he said to them, "Are you also clueless? Do you not understand,
that whatever goes into the man from outside, cannot defile him,
19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly,
and goes out into the sewer?" He said this, making all foods clean.
20 Then he said, "That which comes out of a person, is what
defiles him.
21 For from within a person's heart come evil thoughts, sexual
immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
22 greed, wickedness, deceit, sinful desires, envy, slander, pride,
and foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a person."

24 From there he got up and went away to the borders of Tyre
and Sidon. Afterward he entered into a house, and did not want
anyone to know it; but he could not be hid.
25 But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean
spirit, heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
26 Now the woman was a Greek, of Syro-phoenician extraction. Then
she pleaded with him to cast out the demon out of her daughter.
27 He said to her, "Let the children first be filled, for it is
not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs."
28 But she replied, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table
eat from the children's crumbs."
29 Then he said to her, "For this saying go your way, the demon has
left your daughter."
30 She went home and found the child lying upon the bed, and the
demon gone.

31 Again he left the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the
sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
32 Then they brought to him one who was deaf, and had an impediment
in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand upon him.
33 Then he took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
34 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha,"
that is, "Be opened."
35 His ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed,
and he spoke plainly.
36 He ordered them that they should not tell anyone. But the
more he ordered them, the more they publicized it.
37 They were totally astonished, saying, "He has done all
things well. He makes even the deaf to hear, and the mute
to speak."

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