d he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God,
that you may keep your own tradition.
7:10. For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that
shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.
7:11. But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban
(which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee.
7:12. And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or
mother,
7:13. Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have
given forth. And many other such like things you do.
7:14. And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye
me all and understand.
7:15. There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can
defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that
defile a man.
7:16. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
7:17. And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his
disciples asked him the parable.
7:18. And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge?
Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man
cannot defile him:
7:19. Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly
and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?
7:20. But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile
a man.
7:21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders,
7:22. Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
7:23. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
7:24. And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon:
and entering into a house, he would that no man should know it. And he
could not be hid.
7:25. For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an
unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.
7:26. For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she
besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
7:27. Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is
not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
7:28. But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also
eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.
7:29. And he said to her: For this saying, go thy way. The devil is gone
out of thy daughter.
7:30. And when she was come into her house, she found the girl ly
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