Mark 7:5-35

⁵Then axed him the pharises and scribes why walke not thy disciples accordinge to the tradicions of the elders but eate breede with vnweshen hondes?

⁶He answered and sayde vnto them: well prophesied Esaias of you ypocrites as it is writte: This people honoreth me with their lyppes but their hert is farre from me:

⁷In vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctryns which are nothinge but the comaundementes of men.

⁸For ye laye the commaundement of God aparte and observe the tradicions of men as the wesshinge of cruses and of cuppes and many other suche lyke thinges ye do.

⁹And he sayde vnto them: well ye cast asyde the comaundement of God to mayntayne youre owne tradicions.

¹⁰For Moses sayde: Honoure thy father and thy mother: and whosoever cursseth father or mother let him dye for it.

¹¹But ye saye: a man shall saye to father or mother Corban: which is: that thou desyrest of me to helpe the with is geven God.

¹²And so ye soffre him no more to do ought for his father or his mother

¹³makinge the worde of God of none effecte through youre awne tradicions which ye have ordeyned. And many soche thinges ye do.

¹⁴And he called all the people vnto him and sayde vnto them: Herken vnto me every one of you and vnderstonde.

¹⁵There is no thinge with out a man that can defyle him when it entreth into him: but thoo thinges which procede out of him are those which defyle the man.

¹⁶If eny man have eares to heare let him heare

¹⁷And when he came to house awaye from the people his disciples axed him of the similitude.

¹⁸And he sayd vnto them: Are ye so without vnderstondinge? Do ye not yet perceave that whatsoever thinge from with out entreth into a man it can not defyle him

¹⁹because it entrith not in to his hert but into the belly: and goeth out into the draught that porgeth oute all meates.

²⁰And he sayde: that defileth a man which cometh oute of a man.

²¹For from with in even oute of the herte of men proceade evill thoughtes: advantry fornicacion murder

²²theeft coveteousnes wickednes diceyte vnclennes and a wicked eye blasphemy pryde folysshnes:

²³all these evyll thinges come from with in and defile a man.

²⁴And from thence he rose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon and entred into an housse and wolde that no man should have knowen: But he coulde not be hyd.

²⁵For a certayne woman whose doughter had a foule sprete hearde of him and came and fell at his fete.

²⁶The woman was a Greke oute of Syrophenicia and she besought him that he wolde caste out the devyll oute of her doughter.

²⁷And Iesus sayde vnto her: let the chyldren fyrst be feed. For it is not mete to take the chyldres breed and to caste it vnto whelppes.

²⁸She answered and sayde vnto him: even soo master neverthelesse the whelppes also eate vnder the table of the chyldrens cromes.

²⁹And he sayde vnto her: for this sayinge goo thy waye the devyll is gone out of thy doughter.

³⁰And when she was come home to her housse she founde the devyll departed and her doughter lyinge on the beed.

³¹And he departed agayne from the coostes of Tyre and Sidon and came vnto the see of Galile thorowe the middes of the coostos of the .x. cities.

³²And they brought vnto him one that was deffe and stambred in his speche and prayde him to laye his honde apon him.

³³And he toke him asyde from the people and put his fyngers in his eares and dyd spyt and touched his tounge

³⁴and loked vp to heven and sygthed and sayde vnto him: ephatha that is to saye be openned.

³⁵And streyght waye his eares were openned and the stringe of his tounge was loosed and he spake playne.