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865  l   Mark 8:6 proph­e­sied ­about you hyp­o­crites; as it is writ­ten: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’  a 8 You have let go of the com­mands of God and are hold­ing on to hu­man tra­di­tions.” 9   And he con­tin­ued, “You have a fine way of set­ting ­aside the com­mands of God in or­der to ob­serve  b your own tra­di­tions! 10 For Mo­ses said, ‘Hon­or your fa­ther and moth­er,’  c and, ‘Any­one who curs­es ­their fa­ther or moth­er is to be put to d ­ eath.’  d 11 But you say that if any­one de­clares that what m ­ ight have been used to help t ­ heir fa­ther or moth­er is Cor­ban (that is, de­vot­ed to God) — ​ 12 then you no lon­ger let them do any­thing for t ­ heir fa­ther or moth­er. 13 Thus you nul­li­fy the word of God by your tra­di­ tion that you have hand­ed down. And you do many ­things like that.” 14 Again ­Jesus c ­ alled the c ­ rowd to him and said, “Lis­ten to me, ev­ery­one, and un­ der­stand this. 15 Noth­ing out­side a per­son can de­file them by go­ing into them. Rath­ er, it is what c ­ omes out of a per­son that de­ files them.” [16] e 17 Af­ter he had left the c ­ rowd and en­tered the h ­ ouse, his dis­ci­ples a ­ sked him a ­ bout this par­a­ble. 18 “Are you so dull?” he a ­ sked. “Don’t you see that noth­ing that en­ters a per­son from the out­side can de­file them? 19 For it d ­ oesn’t go into their h ­ eart but into their stom­ach, and then out of the body.” (In say­ing this, ­Jesus de­clared all ­foods clean.) 20 He went on: “What ­comes out of a per­ son is what de­files them. 21 For it is from with­in, out of a per­son’s h ­ eart, that evil thoughts come  — ​sex­u­al im­mo­ral­i­ty, ­theft, mur­der, 22 adul­tery, ­greed, mal­ice, de­ceit, lewd­ness, envy, slan­der, ar­ro­gance and fol­ ly. 23 All t ­ hese e ­ vils come from in­side and de­file a per­son.” J ­ esus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith 24 ­Jesus left that ­place and went to the vi­ cin­i­ty of Tyre.  f He en­tered a ­house and did not want any­one to know it; yet he ­could not keep his pres­ence se­cret. 25 In fact, as soon as she h ­ eard a ­ bout him, a wom­an ­whose lit­tle daugh­ter was pos­sessed by an im­pure spir­it came and fell at his feet. 26 The wom­an was a ­Greek, born in Syr­i­an Phoe­nic­ia. She ­begged ­Jesus to ­drive the de­mon out of her daugh­ter. 27 “First let the chil­dren eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not ­right to take the chil­dren’s ­bread and toss it to the dogs.” 28 “Lord,” she re­plied, “even the dogs un­ der the ta­ble eat the chil­dren’s crumbs.” 29 Then he told her, “For such a re­ply, you may go; the de­mon has left your daugh­ter.” 30 She went home and ­found her ­child ly­ ing on the bed, and the de­mon gone. Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man 31 Then ­Jesus left the vi­cin­i­ty of Tyre and went t ­ hrough Si­don, down to the Sea of Gal­ i­lee and into the re­gion of the De­cap­o­lis.  g 32 There some peo­ple ­brought to him a man who was deaf and c ­ ould hard­ly talk, and they b ­ egged ­Jesus to p ­ lace his hand on him. 33 Af­ter he took him ­aside, away from the crowd, ­Jesus put his fin­gers into the m ­ an’s ears. Then he spit and ­touched the ­man’s ­tongue. 34 He l ­ ooked up to heav­en and with a deep sigh said to him, “Eph­pha­tha!” (which ­means “Be ­opened!”). 35 At this, the man’s ears were ­opened, his ­tongue was loos­ened and he be­gan to ­speak plain­ly. 36 ­Jesus com­mand­ed them not to tell any­one. But the more he did so, the more they kept talk­ing ­about it. 37   Peo­ple were over­whelmed with amaze­ment. “He has done ev­ery­thing well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand 8 Dur­ing ­those days an­oth­er ­large ­crowd gath­ered. S ­ ince they had noth­ing to eat, ­Jesus ­called his dis­ci­ples to him and said, 2 “I have com­pas­sion for ­these peo­ple; they have al­ready been with me t ­ hree days and have noth­ing to eat. 3 If I send them home hun­gry, they will col­lapse on the way, be­cause some of them have come a long dis­tance.” 4   His dis­ci­ples an­swered, “But ­where in this re­mote p ­ lace can any­one get ­enough bread to feed them?” 5 “How many l ­ oaves do you have?” ­Jesus asked. “Sev­en,” they re­plied. 6 He told the ­crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had tak­en the sev­en loaves and giv­en ­thanks, he ­broke them a  6,7 Isaiah 29:13    b  9  Some manuscripts set up    20:12; Deut. 5:16    d  10  Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9    e  16  Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.    f  24  Many early manuscripts Tyre and Sidon    g  31  That is, the Ten Cities    c  10 Exodus