Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

And he said to them, “I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.”

As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Then they asked him, “Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

He said to them, “Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.”

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

So he told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”