1 En die Fariseërs en sommige van die skrifgeleerdes wat van Jerusalem gekom het, het by Hom saamgekom;

2 en toe hulle sommige van sy dissipels met onrein, dit is met ongewaste, hande sien brood eet, het hulle dit afgekeur.

3 Want die Fariseërs en al die Jode eet nie as hulle nie deeglik die hande gewas het nie, omdat hulle vashou aan die oorlewering van die ou mense.

4 En wanneer hulle van die mark kom, eet hulle nie as hulle nie gewas het nie; en baie ander dinge is daar wat hulle aangeneem het om te onderhou: die wassery van bekers en kanne en kopergoed en bedde.

5 Daarop stel die Fariseërs en die skrifgeleerdes Hom die vraag: Waarom wandel u dissipels nie ooreenkomstig die oorlewering van die ou mense nie, maar eet brood met ongewaste hande?

6 En Hy antwoord en sê vir hulle: Tereg het Jesaja oor julle, geveinsdes, geprofeteer soos geskrywe is: Hierdie volk eer My met die lippe, maar hulle hart is ver van My af.

7 Maar tevergeefs vereer hulle My deur leringe te leer wat gebooie van mense is.

8 Want terwyl julle die gebod van God nalaat, hou julle aan die oorlewering van mense vas: die wassery van kanne en bekers, en ander dergelike dinge van dieselfde aard doen julle baie.

9 En Hy sê vir hulle: Julle verstaan dit goed om die gebod van God opsy te sit en so julle oorlewering te onderhou.

10 Want Moses het gesê: Eer jou vader en jou moeder; en: Hy wat vader of moeder vloek, moet sekerlik sterwe.

11 Maar julle sê: As 'n mens aan vader of moeder sê: Enige voordeel wat u van my mag geniet, is korban, dit is 'n offergawe --

12 dan laat julle hom nie meer toe om iets vir sy vader of sy moeder te doen nie.

13 So maak julle dan die woord van God kragteloos deur julle oorlewering wat julle bewaar het; en dergelike dinge van dieselfde aard doen julle baie.

14 En Hy het die hele skare na Hom geroep en vir hulle gesê: Luister almal na My en verstaan.

15 Daar is niks wat van buite af in die mens ingaan wat hom onrein kan maak nie; maar die dinge wat van hom uitgaan, d¡t is die dinge wat die mens onrein maak.

16 As iemand ore het om te hoor, laat hom hoor!

17 En toe Hy van die skare af in 'n huis gekom het, vra sy dissipels Hom oor die gelykenis.

18 En Hy sê vir hulle: Is julle ook so sonder verstand? Begryp julle nie dat alles wat van buite af in die mens ingaan, hom nie onrein kan maak nie,

19 omdat dit nie ingaan in sy hart nie, maar in die maag, en dit gaan in die heimlikheid uit en maak al die voedsel rein?

20 En Hy sê: Wat uit die mens uitgaan, dit maak die mens onrein.

21 Want van binne, uit die hart van die mense, kom die slegte gedagtes, egbreuk, hoerery, moord,

22 diewery, hebsug, boosheid, bedrog, losbandigheid, afguns, lastering, hoogmoed, dwaasheid.

23 Al hierdie booshede kom van binne uit en maak die mens onrein.

24 En Hy het opgestaan en daarvandaan na die gebied van Tirus en Sidon vertrek. En toe Hy in die huis gegaan het, wou Hy nie dat iemand dit sou weet nie; maar Hy kon nie verborge bly nie.

25 Want 'n vrou wie se dogtertjie 'n onreine gees gehad het, het van Hom gehoor en gekom en voor sy voete neergeval.

26 En sy was 'n Griekse vrou, 'n Siro-Feniciese van geboorte, en sy het Hom gevra om die duiwel uit haar dogter uit te dryf.

27 Maar Jesus sê vir haar: Laat eers die kinders versadig word; want dit is nie mooi om die brood van die kinders te neem en vir die hondjies te gooi nie.

28 En sy antwoord en sê vir Hom: Ja, Here, maar die hondjies eet darem onder die tafel van die kinders se krummels.

29 En Hy sê vir haar: Ter wille van hierdie woord kan jy gaan; die duiwel het uit jou dogter uitgevaar.

30 En toe sy huis toe gaan, vind sy dat die duiwel uitgevaar het en dat haar dogter op die bed lê.

31 En Hy het weer uit die gebied van Tirus en Sidon vertrek en na die see van Galil,a gegaan, deur die gebied van Dek polis.

32 Toe bring hulle na Hom 'n dowe wat swaar praat, en smeek Hom om hom die hande op te lê.

33 En Hy neem hom opsy, weg van die skare, en steek sy vingers in sy ore, en spuug en raak sy tong aan;

34 en nadat Hy opgekyk het na die hemel, sug Hy en sê aan hom: ffata, dit is: Gaan oop!

35 En dadelik het sy ore oopgegaan en die band van sy tong losgeraak, en hy het reg gepraat.

36 En Hy het hulle beveel om dit aan niemand te sê nie; maar hoe meer Hy hulle dit beveel, hoe meer hulle dit verkondig.

37 En hulle was uitermate verslae en het gesê: Hy het alles goed gedoen: die dowes laat Hy hoor en die stommes praat.

1 And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.) 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? 6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

This people honoreth me with their lips,

But their heart is far from me.

7 But in vain do they worship me,

Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: 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 Corban, that is to say, Given to God; 12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. 14 And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: 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. 16 17 And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable. 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; 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean. 20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: 23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

24 And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid. 25 But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. 27 And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs. 28 But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter. 30 And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.

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. 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. 33 And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; 34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. 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. 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.