7: 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with 100defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
100Or, common and so in vs. 5.
7: 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands 101diligently, eat not, holding the 102tradition of the elders;
101Or, up to the elbow, Gk. with the fist, So 0274 BL 892 1342 33 (579) and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., geo arm. ℵ copbo vg read often, ℵ copsa sys omit diligently
102Or, instructions And so in vss. 5, 8, 9, 13.
7: 4 and when they come from the marketplace, except they 103bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, 104washings of cups, and pots, and copper vessels105.)
103Gk. baptize So (L ℵ) 892 1342 33 579 and most, copbo sys vg arm. Bℵ copsa geo virtually alone read they sprinkle or, except they sprinkle what is from the marketplace, they do not eat it.
104Gk. baptizings
105So p45vidBℵL ℵ 1342 copbo. 892 33 579 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg geo arm add , and couches. sys omits , and brasen vessels
7: 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
7: 6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 106This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
106Is 29:13.
7: 7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men107.
107So p45 0274 BℵL
7: 8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
7: 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may 108keep your tradition.
108So ℵL 892 ℵ 1342 33 579 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa,bo vg. (B
7: 10 For Moses said, 109Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him 110die the death:
109Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16; Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9.
110Or, surely die:
7: 11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is 111Corban (that is to say, Given to God);
111Hb. ןברכ, an offering
7: 12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
7: 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
7: 14 And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
7: 15 there is nothing from without the man, that, going into him, can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.112
112So 0274 BℵL
7: 16 [[]]
7: 17 And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
7: 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;
7: 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into 113the draught, he purging all the foods?
113Or, the draught? This he said, making all meats clean. 33 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read the draught, it purging all the foods?
7: 20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
7: 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, 114evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
114Gk. thoughts that are evil proceed,
7: 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
7: 23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
7: 24 And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre 115and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.
115L ℵ sys omit and Sidon
7: 25 But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
7: 26 Now the woman was a 116Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
116Or, Gentile,
7: 27 And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not good to take the children’s 117bread and cast it to the 118little dogs.
117Or, loaf
118Or, puppies. And so in vs. 28.
7: 28 But she answered and saith unto him, 119Yes, Lord; even the little dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
119p45 θ sys arm omit Yes,
7: 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.
7: 30 And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
7: 31 And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.
7: 32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.
7: 33 And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
7: 34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, 120Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
120Hb. חתפ[תא], eth-pathah, imperative of Hithpael (reflexive) of the word open. See Thayer’s lexicon.
7: 35 And121 his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plainly.
121So 0274 BℵL 892 ℵ 1342 33 579 copbo. p45 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., sys vg geo arm add straightway
7: 36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.
7: 37 And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
