And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him.

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

And from there he set out [and] went to the region of Tyre. And [when he] entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and [yet] he was not able to escape notice.

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

And again he went away from the region of Tyre [and] came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis.

And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition.

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men."

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]),

you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,

And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands {ritually}, [thus] holding fast to the traditions of the elders.

adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"

And [when they come] from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other [traditions] which they have received [and] hold fast to--[for example,] the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.)

And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean--that is, unwashed--hands.

And he said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the dogs!"

But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, [when she] heard about him, came [and] fell down at his feet,

Now the woman was a Greek--a Syrophoenician by nationality--and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.

All these evil [things] come from within and defile a person."

And he said to her, "Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter."

And [when she] went to her home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.

But she answered and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.

[thus] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar [things] such as this."

There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him [by] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person."

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, "Listen to me, all [of you], and understand:

For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine"--[thus] declaring all foods clean.

And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened!").

And he said to them, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything [that is] outside that goes into a person [is] not able to defile him?

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they were imploring him that he would place his hand on him.

And he took him away from the crowd by himself [and] put his fingers into his ears, and [after] spitting, he touched his tongue.

And they were amazed beyond all measure, saying, "He has done all [things] well! He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!"

And his ears were opened and {his difficulty in speaking was removed} and he began to speak normally.

And he ordered them that they should say nothing, but as much as he ordered them [not to], they proclaimed [it] even more instead.