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Chapter 7 Clean and Unclean 1The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and2saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed.3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.4When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.Some early manuscripts pitchers, kettles and dining couches)5So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with ‘unclean’ hands?” 6He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: 7They worship me in vain; 8You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” 9And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observeSome manuscripts set up your own traditions!10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16 and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:911But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),12then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.” 14Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.15Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’”Some early manuscripts ‘unclean.’ 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. 1617After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.18“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’?19For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) 20He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ 21For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.23All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’”
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