Mark 7 - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

1 observing the tradition of the elders;

4 themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)

5 according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”

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12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

13thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”

14And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:

15there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.”

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17 (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

20 And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid.

25But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.

26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

27And he said to her, “Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

28But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

29And he said to her, “For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”

30And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.

31 Mt 15.29-31. Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.

32Mk 5.23. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him.

33Mk 8.23. And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;

34and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”

35And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

36Mk 1.44; 5.43. And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.

37And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”