² Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

³ Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

⁴ That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

⁶ Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

⁷ All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

⁸ Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

⁹ With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

⁷ Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;

⁸ And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.

⁹ And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

¹⁰ And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

¹¹ And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

¹ Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

² And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. {defiled: or, common}

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. {oft: or, diligently: in the original, with the fist: Theophylact, up to the elbow}

⁴ And {when they come} from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, {as} the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. {pots: sextarius is about a pint and an half} {tables: or, beds}

⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

⁶ He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with {their} lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁷ Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men.

⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, {as} the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. {reject: or, frustrate}

¹⁰ For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

¹¹ And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

¹² Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

¹³ And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:

¹⁴ There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

¹⁵ If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁶ And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

¹⁷ And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, {it} cannot defile him;

¹⁸ Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

¹⁹ And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

²⁰ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²¹ Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}

²² All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

²³ And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know {it}: but he could not be hid.

²⁴ For a {certain} woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

²⁵ The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. {Greek: or, Gentile}

²⁶ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast {it} unto the dogs.

²⁷ And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁸ And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

²⁹ And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

³⁰ And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

³¹ And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

³² And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

³³ And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

³⁴ And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

³⁵ And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published {it};

³⁶ And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.