1
ASV
And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
2
ASV
and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
3
ASV
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
4
ASV
and [when they come] from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
5
ASV
And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
6
ASV
And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
7
ASV
But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
8
ASV
Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
9
ASV
And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
10
ASV
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
11
ASV
but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
12
ASV
ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
13
ASV
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
14
ASV
And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
15
ASV
there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
17
ASV
And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
18
ASV
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;
19
ASV
because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
20
ASV
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
21
ASV
For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
22
ASV
covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
23
ASV
all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
24
ASV
And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.
25
ASV
But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
26
ASV
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
27
ASV
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.
28
ASV
But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
29
ASV
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.
30
ASV
And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
31
ASV
And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.
32
ASV
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.
33
ASV
And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
34
ASV
and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35
ASV
And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
36
ASV
And 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.
37
ASV
And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
ASV: American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.