 1 Then the Pharisees came together to Him, and also some+ of the scribes who came from Jerusalem. 2 When they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say with unwashed hands, they found fault. 3 For holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands often. 4 And when they come from the market, they do not eat unless they wash; and there are many other things that they have received to hold, such as the washing of cups and pots, brazen vessels, and tables. 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands? 6 He answered and said to them: Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Matthew 15:8 7 However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the traditions of men: such as the washing of pots and cups and many other things like such you do. 9 Then He said to them: Full well you reject the commandment of God so that you may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother. And whoever curses father or mother, let them die the death. 11 But you say: If a person+ says to their father or mother: Whatever benefit+ you might have received from me was given as Corban, that is a temple gift, 12 and you allow+ them to do no more for their father or their mother, 13 by doing this, you are making the Word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have delivered. Many things like such you do. 14 When He had called all the people, He said to them: Listen+ to me everyone of you and understand: 15 There is nothing outside+ of a person+, which by entering into them can defile them. But the things that come out of them, those are the things that defile a person+. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. 17 When Jesus went into a house away from the people, His disciples asked Him about+ the parable. 18 He said to them: Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever thing from outside+ enters into a person+ cannot defile them. 19 Because it does not enter into their heart but into the belly and then into the discard+ it goes, purging all foods+. 20 He said: It is what comes out of a person+ that defiles them. 21 For from within, out of the hearts of people+ proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Matthew 15:19 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, filthiness+, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. Matthew 15:19 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person+. 24 From there+ Jesus arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and wanted+ no one to know it, but He could not be hid. 25 For a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard of Him and came and fell at His feet. 26 The woman was a Greek of Syrophenician or mixed race nationality+. She begged+ Jesus to cast the demon+ out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her: Let the children first be filled, for it is not good+ to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs. 28 She answered and said to Him: Yes Lord. Yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. 29 He said to her: For this saying, Go+. The demon+ is gone out of your daughter. 30 When she had come to her house, she found the demon+ gone and her daughter laying on the bed. 31 Then again departing from the borders+ of Tyre and Sidon, Jesus came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders+ of Decapolis. 32 They brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they asked+ Him to put His hand upon him. 33 Jesus took him aside from the multitude and put His fingers into his ears and He spit on His finger and touched his tongue. 34 Then looking up to heaven He sighed and said to him: Ephphatha. That is: Be opened. 35 Immediately+ his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke plainly. 36 Jesus charged him that he should tell no one, but the more He charged them, so much more broadly+ they published it. 37 Everyone was astonished beyond measure saying: He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the speechless+ to speak.
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