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| 7:1 |
And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
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| 7:2 |
and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
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| 7:3 |
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
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| 7:4 |
and [when they come] from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
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| 7:5 |
And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
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| 7:6 |
And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
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| 7:7 |
But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
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| 7:8 |
Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
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| 7:9 |
And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
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| 7:10 |
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
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| 7:11 |
but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
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| 7:12 |
ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
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| 7:13 |
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
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| 7:14 |
And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
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| 7:15 |
there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
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| 7:16 |
[If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.]
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| 7:17 |
And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
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| 7:18 |
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;
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| 7:19 |
because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
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| 7:20 |
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
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| 7:21 |
For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
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| 7:22 |
covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
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| 7:23 |
all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
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| 7:24 |
And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.
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| 7:25 |
But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
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| 7:26 |
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
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| 7:27 |
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
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| 7:28 |
But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
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| 7:29 |
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.
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| 7:30 |
And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
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| 7:31 |
And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.
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| 7:32 |
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.
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| 7:33 |
And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
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| 7:34 |
and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
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| 7:35 |
And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
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| 7:36 |
And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.
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| 7:37 |
And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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