Godbey - Mark - 7

7:1  And the Pharisees and certain ones of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, gather to Him.

7:2  And seeing certain ones of His disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands.

7:3  For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they diligently wash their hands, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

7:4  And from the forum, unless they may baptize themselves, they do not eat: and many other things which they have received to hold, the baptism of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

7:5  Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, Wherefore do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders: but they eat bread with unwashed hands?

7:6  And responding He said to them, Beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as has been written, This people honor me with lips, but their heart is far from me.

7:7  In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

7:8  For having left the commandment of God, you are holding the tradition of men.

7:9  And He said to them, Truly, you make void the commandment of God, that you may hold your own tradition.

7:10  For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and let the one speaking evil of father and mother die the death.

7:11  But you say, If a man may say to father or mother, Corban, that is a gift, whatsoever you may be profited by me;

7:12  and you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother;

7:13  making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have given: and you do many such similar things.

7:14  And calling the crowd to Him again, He said to them, Hear all ye, and understand.

7:15  There is nothing without a man coming into him, which is competent to defile him: but those things coming out from him, these are the things which defile the man.

7:16  If any one has ears to hear, let him hear.

7:17  And when He came from the multitude into the house, His disciples asked Him the parable.

7:18  And He says to them, Are you still without understanding? Do you not know that everything external entering into a man is not able to defile him?

7:19  Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is cast out into the excrement, purifying all edibles.

7:20  And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man.

7:21  For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders,

7:22  thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impurity, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly.

7:23  All these evils proceed out from within, and defile the man.

7:24  And rising up, He departed thence into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. And having entered into a house, and He wished no one to know it: and He was not able to be hidden.

7:25  For a woman hearing concerning Him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come worshiped at His feet.

7:26  For the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by race; and asked Him that He may cast the demon out of her daughter.

7:27  And He said to her, Permit the children first to be fed: for It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to little dogs.

7:28  And she responded and says to Him, Yea, Lord: for even the little dogs eat the crumbs of the children under the table.

7:29  And He said to her, On account of this word go; the demon has already gone out from thy daughter.

7:30  And having come into her house, she found the demon gone out, and the daughter lying on the bed.

7:31  And having again come out from Tyre and Sidon, He came to the Sea of Galilee, amid the coasts of Decapolis.

7:32  And they bring Him a deaf man, speaking with difficulty; and intreat Him that He may lay His hand on him.

7:33  And taking him from the crowd privately, He put His fingers in his ears, and having spat, He touched his tongue;

7:34  and looking up to heaven, he groaned, and says to him, Ephphatha, which is, Be thou opened.

7:35  And immediately his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue loosed, and he continued to speak distinctly.

7:36  And He charged them that they should tell no one: and the more He charged them, the more abundantly they proclaimed it.

7:37  And were astonished exceedingly, saying, He has done all things well: He makes the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.