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1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes coming from Jerusalem gather around him. 2 And seeing some of his disciples that with common hands, that is to say unwashed, ate the loaves— 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews, if they do not wash their hands in a fistula, they do not eat, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4 And from the marketplace, if they are not baptized, they do not eat, and there are many other things that they received to hold, baptisms of cups and of pots and of bronze and of couches— 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?" 6 And he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied well concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.'" 7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 8 Having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men. 9 And he said to them, "You are rejecting the command of God well, in order to keep your tradition." 10 For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother, and: Whoever speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely be put to death. 11 But you say: If a person tells his father or mother, "Corban," which means a gift, by which you might benefit from me, 12 You no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother. 13 You invalidate the word of God by your tradition which you handed down; and you do many similar things. 14 And having called the crowd again, he said to them, "Listen to me all, and understand." 15 Nothing outside of a man entering him can make him unclean; but the things that come out of a man are what make the man unclean. 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 17 And when he entered the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him the parable. 18 And he says to them: "Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the person from outside cannot make him unclean?" 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is expelled? — thus declaring all foods clean. 20 He said that what comes out of man is what makes him unclean. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts come forth: fornications, thefts, murders. 22 adulteries, fornications, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person. 24 From there he arose and went to the borders of Tyre. And having entered a house, he did not want anyone to know; and he could not escape notice. 25 But immediately hearing about him, a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 But the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth; and she asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 And he said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little dogs." 28 And she answered and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 29 And he said to her, "For this reason go, the demon has gone out of your daughter." 30 And having gone into her house, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone out. 31 And again going out from the borders of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, in the midst of the borders of the Decapolis. 32 And they bring to him a deaf and mute man, and they ask him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him away from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears and spitting, touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," which means "Be opened." 35 And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke correctly. 36 And he commanded them not to say anything to anyone; but the more he commanded them, the more they proclaimed it. 37 And they were exceedingly astonished, saying: He has done all things well; He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.