Mark 7:14–37

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.

²⁴And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know it, and he could not be hid. ²⁵But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet ²⁶(and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷But Jesus said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. ²⁸But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. ²⁹And he said to her, Because of this word, go thy way, the demon is gone out of thy daughter. ³⁰And having gone away to her house she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.

³¹And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. ³²And they bring to him a deaf man who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him. ³³And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue; ³⁴and looking up to heaven he groaned, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ³⁵And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right. ³⁶And he charged them that they should speak to no one of it. But so much the more he charged them, so much the more abundantly they proclaimed it; ³⁷and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.