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Mark Chapter 7|#11 Then came together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.#22 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.#23 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.#24 And 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, brasen vessels, and of tables.#25 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?#26 He answered and said to them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.#27 However in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctines the commandments of men.#28 For 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.|*29 And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.#210 For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoso curses father or mother, let him die the death:#211 But 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.#212 And you suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;#213 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: And many such like things do you.|*214 And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, listen to me everyone of you, and understand:#215 There 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.#216 If anyone have ears to hear, let him hear.|*217 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.#218 And he said 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;#219 Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?#220 And he said, which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.#221 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,#222 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:#223 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.|*224 And from there he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no one know it: But he could not be hid.#225 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:#226 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she pleaded him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.#227 But 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.#228 And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: Yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.#229 And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter.#230 And when she had arrived to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.|*231 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.#232 And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.#233 And he took him aside from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;#234 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.#235 And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plain.#236 And he charged them that they should tell no one: But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;#237 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: He makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.