Mark 7:5-35

⁵And (the) Pharisees and (the) scribes asked him, and said, Why go not thy disciples after the tradition(s) of (the) elder men, but with unwashen (or unwashed) hands they eat bread?

⁶And he answered, and said to them, Esaias prophesied well of you, hypocrites, (or Isaiah prophesied well about you, hypocrites), as it is written, This people worshippeth me with (their) lips or This people honoureth me with (their) lips, but their heart is far from me;

⁷and in vain they worship me, teaching the doctrines and the behests or the commandments of men.

⁸For ye leave the commandment of God, and hold (fast to) the traditions of men, as the washing of water vessels or of cruets, and of cups; and many other things like these ye do.

⁹And he said to them, Well ye have made the commandment of God void (or empty and useless), to keep your tradition.

¹⁰For Moses said, Worship thy father and thy mother or Honour thou thy father and thy mother; and he that curseth father or mother, die he by death.

¹¹But ye say, If a man say to (his) father or mother, Corban, that is, Whatever gift is of me, it shall profit to thee, (or Whatever gift is for me, it shall also profit thee);

¹²and over or further(more) ye suffer not him to do anything to (his) father or mother, (and more than this, ye do not allow him to do anything for his father or mother,)

¹³and ye break the word of God by your tradition, that ye have given; and ye do many other such things.

¹⁴And he again called the people, and said to them, Ye all hear me, and understand.

¹⁵Nothing that is without a man, that entereth into him, may defoul him (or can defile him); but those things that come forth of a man, those it be that defoul a man.

¹⁶If any man have ears of hearing, hear he. Forsooth if any man have ears to hear, hear he.

¹⁷And when he was entered into an house, from the people, his disciples asked him (about) the parable.

¹⁸And he said to them, Ye be unwise also. Understand ye not, that all thing withoutforth that entereth into a man, may not defoul him? (or Do ye not understand, that everything from outside that entereth into a man, cannot defile him?)

¹⁹for it hath not entered into his heart, but into the womb, and beneath it goeth out, purging all meats (or cleaning out all the food).

²⁰But he said, The things that go out of a man, those defoul a man (or these defile a person).

²¹For from within, of the heart of men come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, manslayings,

²²thefts, avarices, or covetousness, or over-hard keeping of goods, wickednesses, guile, unchastity, evil eye, blasphemies, pride, folly (or foolishness).

²³All these evils come forth from within, and defoul a man (or and defile a person).

²⁴And Jesus rose up from thence, and went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into an house, and would that no man knew; and he might not be hid. (And Jesus left there, and went to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, and wanted that no one knew that he was there; but he could not stay hidden.)

²⁵For a woman, anon as she heard of him (or as soon as she heard about him), whose daughter had an unclean spirit, entered, and fell down at his feet.

²⁶And the woman was (a) heathen, of the generation of Syrophenician. And she prayed him, that he would cast out a devil from her daughter, (or And she beseeched him, that he would throw a demon out of her daughter).

²⁷And he said to her, Suffer thou (or Allow) that the children be fulfilled first or Suffer thou that the sons be filled first; for it is not good to take the bread of children, and give it to hounds.

²⁸And she answered, and said to him, Yes, Lord; for little whelps eat under the board of the crumbs of (the) children. (And she answered him, Yes, Lord; but even little pups can eat the crumbs of the children under the table.)

²⁹And Jesus said to her, Go thou, for this word the fiend (or the demon) went out of thy daughter.

³⁰And when she was gone into her house home or And when she had gone home/And when she had gone into her house, she found the damsel lying on the bed, and the devil gone out from her. (And when she went home, she found the young girl lying on the bed, and the demon had gone out of her.)

³¹And again Jesus went out from the coasts of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, between the middle of the coasts of Decapolis.

³²And they bring to him a man deaf and dumb, and prayed him to lay his hand/s on him.

³³And he took him aside from the people, and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat, and touched his tongue.

³⁴And he beheld into heaven, and sorrowed within, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be thou opened.

³⁵And anon (or at once) his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was unbound, and he spake rightly.