Mark 7:14–37

¹⁴And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all and understand.

¹⁵There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

¹⁶If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁷And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

¹⁸And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

¹⁹Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

²⁰But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²²Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

²³All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

²⁴And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon: and entering into a house, he would that no man should know it. And he could not be hid.

²⁵For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.

²⁶For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

²⁸But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

²⁹And he said to her: For this saying, go thy way. The devil is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying upon the bed and that the devil was gone out.

³¹And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

³²And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.

³³And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.

³⁴And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.

³⁵And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

³⁶And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.

³⁷And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.