The Skeptics Annotated Bible (782 page)

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?

(7.5)
“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.

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

(7.9-10)
“He
[Jesus]
said … Ye reject the commandment of God … For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”

11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

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

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

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

15 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.

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

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

18 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;

(7.18)
“Whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him.”
13 What should we eat?

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

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

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

22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness,
an evil eye
, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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

(7.22-23)
“An evil eye … defile the man.”

24 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.

(7.24)
“From thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre.”
Ezekiel (26.14, 21, 27.36) prophesied that Tyre would be completely destroyed, never to be built again. But it wasn’t destroyed and continued to exist, as shown by this verse in which Jesus visits Tyre.

(7.25-30) Jesus initially refused to cast out a devil from a Greek woman’s daughter, calling the woman a “dog”. After much pleading, he finally agrees to cast out her daughter’s devil.

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

(7.25)
“A certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet.”

26
The woman was a Greek
, a Syrophenician by nation;
and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter
.

(7.26)
“The woman was a Greek … and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.”

27
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.

(7.27)
“But Jesus said … it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.”

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

(7.28)
“She … said … Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.”

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

(7.29)
“He said … For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.”

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

(7.30)
“When she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out.”

31 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.

(7.32-35) Jesus puts his fingers in a deaf man’s ears, then spits and touches his tongue. This treatment immediately cured his deafness.

32 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.

(7.32)
“They bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech.”

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

(7.33)
“He … put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue.”

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

35
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed
, and he spake plain.

(7.35)
“And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed.”