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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