¹Then the Pharisees gathered round him, as did some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, ²and seeing some of his disciples with unclean hands (that is, unwashed) eating bread, they found fault. ³For neither the Pharisees nor any Jews eat unless they have washed their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders, ⁴and on return from the market, unless they dip themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to keep to: washings of chalices and pots and copper vessels and beds. ⁵Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?” ⁶To which he answered and said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you, you hypocrites, as it stands written: ⁸For having abandoned the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men: washings of pots and chalices, and you do many other similar things.” ⁹And he said to them, “How finely you set aside the commandment of God so as to keep your own tradition! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother’, and, ‘He who speaks ill of his father or mother must certainly die.’ ¹¹But you approve if a man says to his father or mother, ‘What you might have been benefitted by from me is corban’, which means ‘a gift offering’. ¹²And you don't permit him to do anything any more for his father or his mother, ¹³so you invalidate the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And you do many similar things.” ¹⁴Then when he had called all the crowd to himself, he said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing on the outside of man which can defile him, if it goes into him, but it is the things that come out of him – those are the things which defile man. ¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ¹⁷Then when he went into a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸And he said to them, “Are you also witless in this way? Do you not understand that nothing from outside which goes into a man can defile him? ¹⁹Because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and it goes out into the latrine, a system which makes all foodstuffs clean.” ²⁰And he said, “Now what comes out of a man – that is what defiles man. ²¹For from inside, out of the heart of men, come ill-natured disputes, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²thefts, frauds, wicked acts, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³All these wicked things come out from the inside and defile man.” ²⁴Then he got up and departed from there to the regions between Tyre and Sidon, and he went into a house, not wanting anyone to know, but he could not escape notice. ²⁵For a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit had heard about him, and she came and fell down at his feet. ²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race. And she asked him to cast out the demon from her daughter. ²⁷But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” ²⁸Then she answered and said to him, “Yes, Lord. But even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.” ²⁹Then he said to her, “You may go because of that remark. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” ³⁰And she went off to her house, and she found that the demon had come out and that the daughter had been laid on a bed. ³¹And again he left the borders of Tyre and Sidon and came to the Sea of Galilee in the middle of the districts of Decapolis. ³²And they brought him a man deaf and hardly able to speak, and they pleaded with him to put his hand on him. ³³Then he took him away from the crowd privately and put his fingers in his ears and spat and touched his tongue, ³⁴and he looked up to heaven, and he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha”, which means “be opened.” ³⁵And immediately his sense of hearing was opened and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke properly. ³⁶Then he commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he commanded them, the more profusely they publicized it. ³⁷And they were astounded in the extreme, and they said, “He has done everything well – he enables both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.6 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.7 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.10 ↔ Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 5:16.