Mark 7:1–23

¹And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem, are gathered together to him, ²and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, ³(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients; ⁴and on coming from the market-place, unless they are washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels, and brazen utensils, and couches), ⁵then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands? ⁶But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. ⁷But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their teachings commandments of men. ⁸For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men to keep —washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do. ⁹And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep. ¹⁰For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die. ¹¹But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by… ¹²And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother; ¹³making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do. ¹⁴And having called again the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man. ¹⁶If any one have ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁷And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. ¹⁸And he says to them, Are ye also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him, ¹⁹because it does not enter into his heart but into his belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats? ²⁰And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man. ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly; ²³all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man.