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And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles [and beds].) <span id="v48007005" class="ver">5</span>So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders<a id="rfn48007005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007005-1">*</a> but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?” <span id="v48007006" class="ver">6</span>He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:<a id="ren48007006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007006-b">b</a></p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">‘This people honors me with their lips,</p> <p class="sl1">but their hearts are far from me;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v48007007" class="ver">7</span>In vain do they worship me,</p> <p class="sl1l">teaching as doctrines human precepts.’</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v48007008" class="ver">8</span>You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.” <span id="v48007009" class="ver">9</span>He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition! <span id="v48007010" class="ver">10</span>For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother shall die.’<a id="ren48007010-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007010-c">c</a> <span id="v48007011" class="ver">11</span>Yet you say, ‘If a person says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is <i>qorban</i>” ’<a id="rfn48007011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007011-1">*</a> (meaning, dedicated to God), <span id="v48007012" class="ver">12</span>you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother. <span id="v48007013" class="ver">13</span>You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.” <span id="v48007014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren48007014-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007014-d">d</a> He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. <span id="v48007015" class="ver">15</span>Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” [<span id="v48007016" class="ver">16</span>]<a id="rfn48007016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007016-1">*</a></p> <p><span id="v48007017" class="ver">17</span><a id="rfn48007017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007017-1">*</a> <a id="ren48007017-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007017-e">e</a> When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. <span id="v48007018" class="ver">18</span>He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, <span id="v48007019" class="ver">19</span><a id="rfn48007019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007019-1">*</a> <a id="ren48007019-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007019-f">f</a> since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) <span id="v48007020" class="ver">20</span>“But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles. <span id="v48007021" class="ver">21</span><a id="ren48007021-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007021-g">g</a> From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, <span id="v48007022" class="ver">22</span>adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. <span id="v48007023" class="ver">23</span>All these evils come from within and they defile.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith.</span> <span id="v48007024" class="ver">24</span><a id="ren48007024-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007024-h">h</a> From that place he went off to the district of Tyre.<a id="rfn48007024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007024-1">*</a> He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. <span id="v48007025" class="ver">25</span>Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. <span id="v48007026" class="ver">26</span>The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.<a id="ren48007026-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007026-i">i</a> <span id="v48007027" class="ver">27</span>He said to her, “Let the children be fed first.<a id="rfn48007027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007027-1">*</a> For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” <span id="v48007028" class="ver">28</span>She replied and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” <span id="v48007029" class="ver">29</span>Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” <span id="v48007030" class="ver">30</span>When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Healing of a Deaf Man.</span> <span id="v48007031" class="ver">31</span><a id="ren48007031-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007031-j">j</a> Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. <span id="v48007032" class="ver">32</span>And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. <span id="v48007033" class="ver">33</span>He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; <span id="v48007034" class="ver">34</span>then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “<i>Ephphatha</i>!” (that is, “Be opened!”) <span id="v48007035" class="ver">35</span>And [immediately] the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. <span id="v48007036" class="ver">36</span><a id="rfn48007036-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn48007036-1">*</a> He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. <span id="v48007037" class="ver">37</span>They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and [the] mute speak.”<a id="ren48007037-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en48007037-k">k</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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