Mark 7:14-37

English Standard Version

What Defiles a Person

¹⁴ And he called the people to him again and said to them, ^(A)“Hear me, all of you, and understand: ^15 (B)There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”^{[a] 17} And when he had entered ^(C)the house and left the people, ^(D)his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then ^(E)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹ since it enters not his heart ^(F)but his stomach, and is expelled?”^[b] (^(G)Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰ And he said, ^(H)“What comes out of a person is what defiles him. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^(I)murder, adultery, ²² coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^(J)sensuality, ^(K)envy, ^(L)slander, ^(M)pride, ^(N)foolishness. ^23 (O)All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith

²⁴ And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.^[c] And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. ²⁵ But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. ^26 (P)Now the woman was a ^(Q)Gentile, ^(R)a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ And he said to her, “Let the children be ^(S)fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and ^(T)throw it to the dogs.” ²⁸ But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's ^(U)crumbs.” ²⁹ And he said to her, “For this statement you may ^(V)go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.

Jesus Heals a Deaf Man

^31 (W)Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to ^(X)the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the ^(Y)Decapolis. ³² And they brought to him ^(Z)a man who was deaf and ^(AA)had a speech impediment, and they begged him to ^(AB)lay his hand on him. ³³ And ^(AC)taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and ^(AD)after spitting touched his tongue. ³⁴ And ^(AE)looking up to heaven, ^(AF)he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” ^35 (AG)And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. ³⁶ And ^(AH)Jesus^[d] charged them to tell no one. But ^(AI)the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. ³⁷ And they were ^(AJ)astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”