Mark 7

¹And there assemble together unto him the Pharisees and certain of the Scribes, coming from Jerusalem.

²And when they had seen certain of his Disciples eat bread with common hands, that is, not washed, they blamed them.

³For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they often wash their hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the Ancients:

⁴And from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there be that were delivered unto them to observe, the washings of cups and cruses, and of brazen vessels & beds.

⁵And the Pharisees and Scribes asked him: Why do not thy Disciples walk according to the tradition of the Ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

⁶But he answering, said to them: Well did Esay Prophesy of you Hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁷And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines precepts of men.

⁸For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the traditions of men, the washings of cruses and cups: & many other things you do like to these.

⁹And he said to them, well do you frustrate the precept of God, that you may observe your own tradition.

¹⁰For Moyses said: Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

¹¹But you say: If a man say to father or mother, Corban (which is a gift) whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee:

¹²And further you suffer him not to do ought for his father or mother,

¹³defeating the word of God for your own tradition which you have given forth. And many other things of this sort you do.

¹⁴And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear me all you, and understand.

¹⁵Nothing is without a man entering into him, that can defile him. But the things that proceed from a man those are they that make a man common.

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

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

¹⁸And he saith to them: So are you also unskillful? Understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man, cannot make him common:

¹⁹because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy, purging all the meats?

²⁰But he said that the things which come forth from a man, they make a man common.

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

²²thefts, avarices, wickedness, guile, impudicities, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

²³All these evils proceed from within, and make a man common.

²⁴And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon: and entering into a house, he would that no man should know, and he could not be hid.

²⁵For a woman immediately as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, entered in, and fell down at his feet.

²⁶For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophænician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷Who said to her: Suffer first the children to be filled. For it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the dogs.

²⁸But she answered, and said to him: Yea Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

²⁹And he said to her: For this saying go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰And when she was departed into her house, she found the maid lying upon the bed, and the devil gone out.

³¹And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

³²And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that he would impose his hand upon him.

³³And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, touched his tongue;

³⁴And looking up unto Heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephphetha, which is, Be thou opened.

³⁵And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake right.

³⁶And he commanded them not to tell anybody. But how much he commanded them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.

³⁷And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.