1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,
2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
3 thus observing the tradition of the elders,
4 and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.)
5),
12then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,
13thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”
14Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
15there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”
17When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
19since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
20And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.
23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith24From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
25but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
26Now the woman was a gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
28But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”
30And when she went home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
Jesus Cures a Deaf Man31Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went by way of Sidon toward the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
32 ordered them to tell no one, but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
37They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”
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