The Source of Your Pollution
7The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars who had come from Jerusalem, gathered around him.G25322They noticed that some of his disciples weren't being careful with ritual washings before meals.G2532G1492G5100G846G3101G2068G740G2839G5123G449G5495G3201
3The Pharisees—Jews in general, in fact—would never eat a meal without going through the motions of a ritual hand-washing,G1063G5330G2532G3956G2453G3362G3538G5495G4435G2068G3756G2902G3862G4245
4with an especially vigorous scrubbing if they had just come from the market (to say nothing of the scourings they'd give jugs and pots and pans).G2532G575G58G3362G907G2068G3756G2532G4183G243G2076G3739G3880G2902G909G4221G2532G3582G2532G5473G2532G2825
5The Pharisees and religion scholars asked, "Why do your disciples flout the rules, showing up at meals without washing their hands?"G1899G5330G2532G1122G1905G846G1302G4043G3756G4675G3101G2596G3862G4245G235G2068G740G449G5495
6Jesus answered, "Isaiah was right about frauds like you, hit the bull's-eye in fact: These people make a big show of saying the right thing, but their heart isn't in it.G611G1161G2036G846G3754G2573G2268G4395G4012G5216G5273G5613G1125G3778G2992G5091G3165G5491G1161G846G2588G568G4206G575G1700
7They act like they are worshiping me, but they don't mean it. They just use me as a cover for teaching whatever suits their fancy,G1161G3155G4576G3165G1321G1319G1778G444
8Ditching God's command and taking up the latest fads."G1063G863G1785G2316G2902G3862G444G909G3582G2532G4221G2532G4183G243G5108G3946G4160
9He went on, "Well, good for you. You get rid of God's command so you won't be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions!G2532G3004G846G2573G114G1785G2316G2443G5083G5216G3862
10Moses said, 'Respect your father and mother,' and, 'Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.'G1063G3475G2036G5091G4675G3962G2532G4675G3384G2532G2551G3962G2228G3384G5053G2288
11But you weasel out of that by saying that it's perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, 'Gift! What I owed you I've given as a gift to God,'G1161G5210G3004G1437G444G2036G3962G2228G3384G2878G3603G1435G1537G3739G1437G5623G1700
12thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother.G2532G863G846G3765G4160G3762G846G3962G2228G846G3384
13You scratch out God's Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this."G208G3056G2316G208G5216G3862G3739G3860G2532G4183G5108G3946G4160
14Jesus called the crowd together again and said, "Listen now, all of you—take this to heart.G2532G4341G3956G3793G3004G846G191G3450G3956G2532G4920
15It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it's what you vomit—that's the real pollution."G2076G3762G1855G444G3739G1531G1519G846G1410G2840G846G235G1607G575G846G1565G2076G2840G444
16(OMITTED TEXT)G1536G2192G3775G191G191
17When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, "We don't get it. Put it in plain language."G2532G3753G1525G1519G3624G575G3793G846G3101G1905G846G4012G3850
18Jesus said, "Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you see that what you swallow can't contaminate you?G2532G3004G846G2075G5210G3779G801G2532G3539G3756G3539G3754G3956G1855G1531G1519G444G3756G1410G2840G846
19It doesn't enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed." (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.)G3754G1531G3756G1519G846G2588G235G1519G2836G2532G1607G1519G856G2511G3956G1033
20He went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes:G1161G3004G3754G1607G1537G444G1565G2840G444
21obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries,G1063G2081G1537G2588G444G1607G2556G1261G3430G4202G5408
22greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—G2829G4124G4189G1388G766G4190G3788G988G5243G877
23all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution."G3956G5023G4190G1607G2081G2532G2840G444
24From there Jesus set out for the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house there where he didn't think he would be found, but he couldn't escape notice.G2532G1564G450G565G1519G3181G5184G2532G4605G2532G1525G1519G3614G2309G3762G1097G2532G1410G3756G2990
25He was barely inside when a woman who had a disturbed daughter heard where he was. She came and knelt at his feet,G1063G1135G3739G846G2365G2192G169G4151G191G4012G846G2064G4363G4314G846G4228
26begging for help. The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. She asked him to cure her daughter.G1161G1135G2258G1674G4949G1085G2532G2065G846G2443G1544G1140G1537G846G2364
27He said, "Stand in line and take your turn. The children get fed first. If there's any left over, the dogs get it."G1161G2424G2036G846G863G5043G4412G5526G1063G2076G3756G2570G2983G5043G740G2532G906G2952
28She said, "Of course, Master. But don't dogs under the table get scraps dropped by the children?"G1161G611G2532G3004G846G3483G2962G2532G1063G2952G5270G5132G2068G575G3813G5589
29Jesus was impressed. "You're right! On your way! Your daughter is no longer disturbed. The demonic affliction is gone."G2532G2036G846G1223G5126G3056G5217G1140G1831G1537G4675G2364
30She went home and found her daughter relaxed on the bed, the torment gone for good.G2532G565G1519G846G3624G2147G1140G1831G2532G2364G906G1909G2825
31Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns.G2532G3825G1831G1537G3725G5184G2532G4605G2064G4314G2281G1056G303G3319G3725G1179
32Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him.G2532G5342G846G2974G3424G2532G3870G846G2443G2007G5495G846
33He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man's ears and some spit on the man's tongue.G2532G618G846G2596G2398G575G3793G906G846G1147G1519G846G3775G2532G4429G680G846G1100
34Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, "Ephphatha!—Open up!"G2532G308G1519G3772G4727G2532G3004G846G2188G3603G1272
35And it happened. The man's hearing was clear and his speech plain—just like that.G2532G2112G846G189G1272G2532G1199G846G1100G3089G2532G2980G3723
New Testament
36Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more,G2532G1291G846G2443G2036G3367G1161G3745G846G1291G846G3123G4054G2784
37beside themselves with excitement. "He's done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless."G2532G5249G1605G3004G4160G3956G2573G4160G2532G2974G191G2532G216G2980
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