Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. Mat 15:1-20Mrk 3:22Luk 11:53-54Luk 5:17 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. Act 10:28Mat 7:3-5Rom 14:14Act 10:14-15Act 11:8Dan 6:4-5Mat 23:23-25 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. Gal 1:14Mrk 7:13Col 2:21-23Col 2:81Pe 1:18Mat 15:2-6Mrk 7:5Mrk 7:7-10 They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) Heb 9:10Luk 11:38-39Mat 23:25Isa 1:16Jas 4:8Jer 4:14Jhn 2:61Jn 1:7 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?” 2Th 3:6Act 21:21Act 21:24Gal 1:14Mat 15:2Mrk 2:16-18Rom 4:122Th 3:11
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, Isa 29:13Tit 1:16Mat 15:7-9Ezk 33:312Ti 3:5Mat 23:13-15Jas 2:14-17Jhn 5:42
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
They worship me in vain, Isa 29:13Mat 15:9Col 2:22Jas 1:26Mat 6:71Ti 4:1-3Tit 3:91Sa 12:21
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 1
“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.” Mrk 7:3-4Isa 1:12 He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. Isa 29:13Gal 2:21Jer 44:16-17Isa 24:5Mat 15:3-6Psa 119:126Mrk 7:13Mrk 7:3 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ 2 and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 3 Exo 21:17Exo 20:12Deu 5:16Lev 20:9Mat 15:4Mrk 10:19Deu 27:16Pro 20:20 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’” 4 that is to say, given to God, Mat 23:181Ti 5:4-8Mat 15:5 “then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.” Mrk 7:9Tit 1:14Isa 8:20Mat 5:17-20Hos 8:12Jer 8:8-9Mat 15:6Ezk 18:14
He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Mat 15:10Pro 8:5Act 8:30Isa 6:91Ki 18:211Ki 22:28Luk 12:54-57Psa 94:8 There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. Pro 4:23Lev 11:42-47Tit 1:15Heb 13:9Mat 12:34Heb 9:10Mrk 7:18-23Rom 14:17 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” 5
When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. Mat 15:15Mat 13:36Mrk 9:28Mat 13:10Mrk 4:10Mrk 4:34 He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, Mat 15:16-17Heb 5:11Isa 28:9-10Luk 24:25Mat 16:111Co 3:2Jer 5:4-5Jhn 3:10 because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?” 6 Mat 15:171Co 6:13Act 10:15Act 11:9Col 2:16Col 2:21-22Luk 11:41Rom 14:1-12 He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. Jas 3:6Jas 1:14-15Jas 4:1Mrk 7:15Mat 12:34-37Psa 41:6Mic 2:1Heb 7:6 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, Jer 17:9Jas 4:1-3Rom 8:7-8Gal 5:19-21Mat 15:19Act 8:22Ezk 38:10Jas 2:4 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. Mat 20:151Pe 2:151Pe 5:52Co 10:5Ecc 7:25Mat 6:23Oba 1:3-41Sa 18:8-9 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.” Mrk 7:151Co 3:17Tit 1:15Jud 1:8Mrk 7:18
From there he arose and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. Mat 15:21-28Mat 11:21Ezk 28:2Mrk 6:31-32Mrk 3:7-81Ti 5:25Mat 9:28Ezk 28:21-22 For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. Mat 15:22Act 10:25-26Mrk 1:40Mrk 5:22-23Mrk 5:33Mrk 9:17-23Luk 17:16Rev 22:8-9 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. Mat 15:22Col 3:11Gal 3:28Isa 49:12 But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” Mat 15:23-28Mat 7:6Act 22:21Eph 2:12Mat 10:5Rom 15:8
But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Rom 10:12Rom 3:29Act 11:17-18Isa 45:22Luk 15:30-32Luk 7:6-8Eph 2:12-14Eph 3:8
He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” Mat 5:3Isa 66:2Mat 8:9-131Jn 3:8Isa 57:15-16
She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out. 1Jn 3:8Jhn 4:50-52
Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee through the middle of the region of Decapolis. Mrk 5:20Mat 15:29-31Mat 4:25Mrk 7:24Mat 11:21Mat 4:18 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. Luk 11:14Mrk 5:23Mat 9:32-33 He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue. Mrk 8:23Jhn 9:6-7Mrk 5:401Ki 17:19-222Ki 4:33-342Ki 4:4-6 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” Jhn 11:41Mrk 5:41Act 9:34Act 9:40Jhn 11:33Mrk 6:41Jhn 11:43Mrk 8:12 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly. Isa 35:5-6Isa 32:3-4Mat 11:5Mrk 2:12Psa 33:9 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. Mat 8:4Mrk 1:44-45Mrk 3:12Mrk 5:43Mrk 8:26 They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!” Mrk 6:51Exo 4:10-11Mrk 4:41Mrk 5:42Gen 1:31Mrk 2:12Psa 139:14Act 14:11