1The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,
2and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands — that is, unwashed.
3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, observing the traditions of the elders;
4and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe — the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots and couches.
5The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him: "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?"
6And He said to them: "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their kardia(heart, soul-domain) is far away from Me.
7But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
8"Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups and many other such things you do."
9He was also saying to them: "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.
10For Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death';
11but you say: 'If a man says to his father or his mother, "Whatever I have that would help you is Corban" (that is to say, given to God),'
12you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;
13thus invalidating the logos(word) of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that."
14After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them: "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:
15there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
17When He had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.
18And He said to them: "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
19because it does not go into his kardia(heart, soul-domain) but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" — thus He declared all foods clean.
20And He was saying: "That which proceeds out of the man — that is what defiles the man.
21For from within, out of the kardia(heart, soul-domain) of men, proceed the evil dialogismoi(reasoning, deliberations): sexual immorality, thefts, murders,
22adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.
23All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."
24From there He arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon; and He entered a house and wanted no one to know of it, yet He could not escape notice.
25But after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an akathartos(unclean) pneuma(spirit) immediately came and fell at His feet.
26Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon(individual evil spirit to be expelled) out of her daughter.
27And He was saying to her: "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
28But she answered and said to Him: "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs."
29And He said to her: "Because of this logos(word), go — the demon(individual evil spirit to be expelled) has gone out of your daughter."
30And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon(individual evil spirit to be expelled) having left.
31Again He went out from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis.
32They brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they implored Him to lay His hand on him.
33Yeshua(Jesus) took him aside from the crowd by himself and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting He touched his tongue with the saliva;
34and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him: "Ephphatha!" — that is, "Be opened!"
35And immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.
36And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it.
37They were utterly astonished, saying: "He has done all things well — He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."