Mark 7:21-37 ▼

21 For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22 Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:

23 All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

24 And arising from thence, he departed into the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, and having come into the house, he would have none know; and he could not be hid.

25 For a woman having heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet:

26 And the woman was a Grecian, a Syrophenician by birth; and she entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

27 And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs.

28 And she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord: for also the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.

29 And he said to her, For this word retire; the demon has gone out of thy daughter.

30 And having departed to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter cast upon the bed.

31 And again, having gone out from the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis.

32 And they bring to him a deaf one, tongue-tied; and they beseech him that he would put the hand upon him.

33 And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers in his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue;

34 And having looked up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, which is, Be opened.

35 And quickly his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake rightly.

36 And he charged them that they should say to none: and as much as he charged them, they proclaimed more abundantly;

37 And above measure were they struck with amazement, saying, Well has he done all things: he makes the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.