1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him.
2 And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands
4 And
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their
6 So he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
7 And they worship me in vain,
8 Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.”
9 And he said to them, “You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can maintain your tradition.
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’
11 But you say, ‘If a man says to his
12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his
14 And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all
15 There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him
17 And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18 And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything
19 For it does not enter into his heart but into his
20 And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.
21 For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
22 adulteries,
23 All these evil
24 And from there he set out
25 But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit,
26 Now the woman was a Greek—a Syrophoenician by nationality—and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.
27 And he said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw
28 But she answered and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29 And he said to her, “Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30 And
31 And again he went away from the region of Tyre
32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they were imploring him that he would place his
33 And he took him away from the crowd by himself
34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “
35 And immediately his ears were opened and
36 And he ordered them that they should say nothing, but as much as he ordered them
37 And they were amazed beyond all measure, saying, “He has done all