1The Mt 15:1-20 Pharisees Mk 7:3 and some of the scribes Mt 2:4 who had come from Jerusalem Mt 23:37 gathered around Him.

2They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean Ac 10:28 — that is, unwashed — hands.

3(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

4When they come from the marketplace, Mk 6:56 they do not eat unless they have washed. Heb 6:2; 9:10 And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, jugs, copper utensils, and dining couches. Other mss omit and dining couches Lk 5:18)

5Then the Pharisees Mk 7:3 and the scribes Mt 2:4 asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, 3Jn 1 instead of eating bread with ritually unclean Other mss read with unwashed hands? ”

6He answered them, “Isaiah Mt 3:3; 4:14; 12:17 prophesied Jn 11:51 correctly about you hypocrites, Lk 6:42 as it is written: Ac 15:15

17When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

18And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

19For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach Php 3:19 and is eliminated.” Lit goes out into the toilet (As a result, He made all foods clean. Other mss read is eliminated, making all foods clean.” 1Jn 1:7)

20Then He said, “What comes out of a person — that defiles him.

22adulteries, Nm 5:11 greed, Eph 5:3 evil actions, deceit, Ps 10:7 promiscuity, Rm 13:13; 2Co 12:21; Gl 5:19; Eph 4:19; 1Pt 4:3; 2Pt 2:2,7,18 stinginess, Lit evil eye blasphemy, Jn 10:33; Rv 13:6 pride, Ps 17:10 and foolishness. 2Co 11:1

24He got up and departed from Mt 15:21-28 there to the region of Tyre Ac 21:7 and Sidon. Other mss omit and Sidon Gn 49:13 He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

25Instead, immediately after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit Lk 11:24 came and fell at His feet. Lk 8:47

26Now the woman was Greek, Ac 17:12 a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 out of her daughter.

27He said to her, “Allow the children to be satisfied first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” Ex 22:31

28But she replied to Him, “Lord, Lk 10:1 even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

29Then He told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

30When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

31Again, leaving the region of Tyre, Ac 21:7 He went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, Mt 4:18; 15:29; Mk 1:16; Jn 6:1 through Or into the region of the Decapolis. Mt 4:25; Mk 5:20

32They brought to Him a deaf Lk 7:22 man who also had a speech difficulty, Ex 4:11; Is 35:6; 56:10 and begged Jesus to lay His hand on 1Tm 5:22 him.

33So He took him away from the crowd privately. After putting His fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, Jn 9:6 He touched his tongue.

34Then, looking up to heaven, Mt 24:35; Lk 12:33; Ac 17:24; Eph 6:9; Rv 21:10 He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” An Aram expression (that is, “Be opened! ”).

35Immediately his ears were opened, Phm 10 his speech difficulty was removed, Lit opened, the bond of his tongue was untied and he began to speak clearly. Lk 20:21

36Then He ordered them to tell no one, Mk 1:44; Lk 8:56 but the more He would order them, the more they would proclaim Mk 1:4 it.

37They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! Gn 1:31 He even makes deaf Lk 7:22 people hear, and people unable to speak, Mk 9:17 talk! ”