7Mark 7

1Then came together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.Select Mark 7:1

2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they found fault.Select Mark 7:2

3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.Select Mark 7:3

4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.Select Mark 7:4

5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?Select Mark 7:5

6He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.Select Mark 7:6

7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.Select Mark 7:7

8For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do.Select Mark 7:8

9And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.Select Mark 7:9

10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:Select Mark 7:10

11But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; he shall be free.Select Mark 7:11

12And you suffer him no more to do something for his father or his mother;Select Mark 7:12

13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things do you. ¶Select Mark 7:13

14And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen to me every one of you, and understand:Select Mark 7:14

15There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.Select Mark 7:15

16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.Select Mark 7:16

17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.Select Mark 7:17

18And he says to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him;Select Mark 7:18

19Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?Select Mark 7:19

20And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.Select Mark 7:20

21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,Select Mark 7:21

22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:Select Mark 7:22

23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. ¶Select Mark 7:23

24And from there he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.Select Mark 7:24

25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:Select Mark 7:25

26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she sought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.Select Mark 7:26

27But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the dogs.Select Mark 7:27

28And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.Select Mark 7:28

29And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter.Select Mark 7:29

30And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid on the bed. ¶Select Mark 7:30

31And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the coasts of Decapolis.Select Mark 7:31

32And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand on him.Select Mark 7:32

33And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;Select Mark 7:33

34And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.Select Mark 7:34

35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plain.Select Mark 7:35

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;Select Mark 7:36

37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.Select Mark 7:37