And Pharisees and scribes who had come from Urishlim gathered to him.

And they saw some of his disciples eating bread with their hands unwashed, and they found fault.

For all the Jews and the Pharisees, unless they carefully wash their hands, do not eat, because they hold fast the tradition of the elders.

And coming from the marketplace, unless they immerse, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to keep, such as the immersions of cups and of pots and of bronze vessels and of couches.

And the scribes and Pharisees asked him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with their hands unwashed?

But he said to them: Well did Eshaya the prophet prophesy about you, pretenders, as it is written: This people honors me with its lips, but their heart is very far from me.

And in vain they revere me, while they teach as doctrines the commandments of the sons of men.

For you have forsaken the commandment of Elohim, and you hold fast the tradition of the sons of men, immersions of cups and of pots and many things like these.

He said also to them: You do well to reject the commandment of Elohim, that you may establish your tradition.

For Moshe said: Honor your father and your mother; and whoever reviles father or mother will surely die.

But you say: If a man says to his father or to his mother, It is my offering, whatever you might gain from me,

and you do not allow him to do anything for his father or his mother.

And you reject the word of Elohim because of the tradition that you hand down. And many things like these you do.

And Y'shua called the whole crowd and said to them: Hear me, all of you, and understand.

There is nothing outside a person that enters him that can defile him. But what comes out of him, that is what defiles a person.

Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

And when Y'shua entered the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about this parable.

He said to them: Are you also so dull? Do you not know that everything that enters a person from outside cannot defile him?

because it does not enter into his heart, but into his belly, and is thrown out in the purge that cleanses all the food.

But that which goes out from a man, that defiles the man.

For from within, from the heart of the sons of men, go out evil thoughts, adultery, fornication,

theft, murder, greed, wickedness, deceit, shamelessness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly.

All these evil things go out from within and defile the man.

From there Y'shua rose and came to the border of Tsur and of Tsidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know of him, and he could not be hidden.

For immediately a certain woman heard of him, who had an unclean spirit for her daughter, and she came and fell before his feet.

Now that woman was a pagan from Punyqa of Surya, and she was begging him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Y'shua said to her: Let the children first be satisfied, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

But she answered and said to him: Yes, my Master; even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.

Y'shua said to her: Go; because of this word, the demon has gone out from your daughter.

And she went to her house and found her daughter lying on the bed, and the demon gone out from her.

Again Y'shua went out from the border of Tsur and of Tsidon and came to the sea of Galila, in the border of the Ten Cities.

And they brought to him one who was deaf and stammering, and they were asking him to lay a hand on him.

And he led him aside from the crowd by himself, and put his fingers into his ears, and spit and touched his tongue,

and looked toward heaven and sighed and said to him: Be opened.¹

And in that hour his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

And he warned them that they should tell no one; and the more he was warning them, the more they were proclaiming it.

And they were marveling exceedingly and saying, He does everything well: he makes the deaf hear, and those who do not speak speak.