1 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him.
2 They noticed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed, and they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat without washing their hands thoroughly, since they hold to the tradition of the elders;
4 and coming from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things they have received to hold to: the washings of cups and jugs and copper pots and couches.
5 So the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
6 He answered them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is distant, far from me.
7 It is to no purpose that they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'
8 For you set aside the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men, the washings of jugs and cups; and you do many other things like these."
9 He went on to say to them, "How well you set aside the commandment of God so that you may keep your tradition!
10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Anyone who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
11 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or mother, "Whatever help you might have had from me is Corban"' (that is, a gift),
12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,
13 nullifying the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."
14 Then he called the whole crowd to him and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15 There is nothing outside a man that, by going into him, can make him unclean; but the things that come out of him are what make the man unclean.
16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
17 When he had gone into a house, away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18 He said to them, "Are you too so lacking in understanding? Do you not realize that whatever enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,
19 since it does not go into his heart but into his stomach, and passes out into the latrine, purging all foods?"
20 And he said, "What comes out of a man, that is what makes the man unclean.
21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil reasonings, adulteries, acts of sexual immorality, murders,
22 thefts, greed, wicked deeds, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
23 All these evil things come from within and make the man unclean."
24 He got up and went away from there into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not stay hidden.
25 For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, came, and fell at his feet.
26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician descent, and she kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be fed first; for it is not good to take the bread belonging to the children and toss it to the little dogs."
28 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs."
29 He told her, "Because of this word, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."
30 She went off to her home and found the demon gone and her daughter lying on the bed.
31 Again he left the region of Tyre and Sidon and came to the Sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of the Decapolis.
32 They brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they pleaded with him to place his hand on him.
33 He took him aside from the crowd by himself, put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, touched his tongue.
34 Looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened!"
35 At once his ears were opened, the bond of his tongue was released, and he spoke correctly.
36 He ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
37 They were astonished beyond all measure and said, "He has done everything well; he makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!"