Mark 7:14–37

¹⁴And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, ‘Hearken to me, ye all, and understand; ¹⁵there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man. ¹⁶If any hath ears to hear—let him hear.’ ¹⁷And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile, ¹⁸and he saith to them, ‘So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him? ¹⁹because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.’ ²⁰And he said—‘That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; ²¹for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²²thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; ²³all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.’

²⁴And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid, ²⁵for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet,— ²⁶and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation—and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter. ²⁷And Jesus said to her, ‘Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.’ ²⁸And she answered and saith to him, ‘Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children’s crumbs.’ ²⁹And he said to her, ‘Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;’ ³⁰and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid upon the couch.

³¹And again, having gone forth from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis, ³²and they bring to him a deaf, stuttering man, and they call on him that he may put the hand on him. ³³And having taken him away from the multitude by himself, he put his fingers to his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue, ³⁴and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be thou opened;’ ³⁵and immediately were his ears opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain. ³⁶And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming it, ³⁷and they were being beyond measure astonished, saying, ‘Well hath he done all things; both the deaf he doth make to hear, and the dumb to speak.’

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