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| 7:1 |
Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
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| 7:2 |
they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
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| 7:3 |
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
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| 7:4 |
and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves;and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
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| 7:5 |
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, 'Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?'
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| 7:6 |
And he said to them, 'Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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| 7:7 |
in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'
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| 7:8 |
You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.'
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| 7:9 |
And he said to them, 'You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
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| 7:10 |
For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother';and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
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| 7:11 |
but you say, If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) --
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| 7:12 |
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
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| 7:13 |
thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.'
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| 7:14 |
And he called the people to him again, and said to them, 'Hear me, all of you, and understand:
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| 7:15 |
there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him;but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.'
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| 7:16 |
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| 7:17 |
And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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| 7:18 |
And he said to them, 'Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,
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| 7:19 |
since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?' (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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| 7:20 |
And he said, 'What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
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| 7:21 |
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
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| 7:22 |
coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
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| 7:23 |
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.'
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| 7:24 |
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it;yet he could not be hid.
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| 7:25 |
But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.
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| 7:26 |
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoeni'cian by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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| 7:27 |
And he said to her, 'Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.'
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| 7:28 |
But she answered him, 'Yes, Lord;yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.'
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| 7:29 |
And he said to her, 'For this saying you may go your way;the demon has left your daughter.'
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| 7:30 |
And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.
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| 7:31 |
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap'olis.
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| 7:32 |
And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech;and they besought him to lay his hand upon him.
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| 7:33 |
And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;
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| 7:34 |
and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, 'Eph'phatha,' that is, 'Be opened.'
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| 7:35 |
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
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| 7:36 |
And he charged them to tell no one;but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
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| 7:37 |
And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, 'He has done all things well;he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.'
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