MODERN LITERAL VERSION

7:1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes were gathered together to see him, having come from Jerusalem,
7:2 and having seen some of his disciples eating their bread with common, that is, unwashed hands, they found-fault.
7:3 For* the Pharisees and all the Jews, if they do not wash their hands scrubbing with the fist, do not eat, holding-fast the tradition of the elders;
7:4 and when coming from the marketplace, they do not eat if they do not {F} bathe themselves first, and there are many other things which they take to holding-fast like, immersions* of cups and pint pitchers and brass kettles and cots.
7:5 Thereafter the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why are your disciples not walking according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?

7:6 But answering, he said to them, Isaiah did prophesy well concerning you* hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is faraway from me.
7:7 But they are worshiping me with futility, teaching as their teachings– the commandments of men.' {Is. 29:13}
7:8 For* you* leave the commandment of God and hold-fast the tradition of men, like immersions* of pint pitchers and cups and you* practice many other such similar things.

7:9 And he said to them, Full well, you* reject the commandment of God, that* you* may keep your* tradition.
7:10 For* Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother.' {Ex. 20:12 & Deut. 5:16} And, ‘He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.' {Ex. 21:17 & Lev. 20:9}
7:11 But you* say, If a man says to his father or his mother, that with whatever you might have been profited from me is Corban, that is to say, A gift,
7:12 and so you* no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother.
7:13 You* are invalidating the word of God by your* tradition, which you* have been given and you* practice many such similar things.

7:14 And having called to him all the crowd again, he said to them, All of you* hear me and understand.
7:15 There is nothing outside the man, that going into him is able to desecrate him, but the things which go out from him, those are the things which defile the man.
7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

7:17 And when he had entered into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
7:18 And he says to them, So are you* also without understanding? Do you* not perceive, that whatever is outside, going into the man, is unable to desecrate him;
7:19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly and goes out into the sewer? ( He said thus cleansing all foods.)
7:20 And he said, That which goes out from the man, desecrates the man.
7:21 For* evil reasonings come out from inside, out of the heart of men, such as: adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
7:22 greedy acts, wickednesses, treachery, unbridled-lusts, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness.
7:23 All these evil things come out from inside and desecrate the man.
{Mk 7:24 & Mt 15:21.}

7:24 And rising* up from there and he went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house and wished no one to know it, and he was not able to elude them.
{Mk 7:25-30 & Mt 15:22-28 Tyre and Sidon.}

7:25 For* a woman having heard concerning him, whose young-daughter had an unclean spirit, having come to him, fell down before his feet.
7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she requested him that* he might cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
7:27 But Jesus said to her, Allow the children first to be fed; for* it is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the puppies.

7:28 But she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord; for* even the puppies underneath the table eat of the children's crumbs.

7:29 And he said to her, Because of these words, go; the demon is gone from your daughter.
7:30 And she went away to her house and found the child laid upon the cot and the demon had gone.
{Mk 7:31 & Mt 15:29 Avoiding Herod's territory.}

7:31 And again having gone out from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, between the borders of Decapolis.
{Mk 7:32-37 & Mt 15:30-31 Magadan and Bethsaida Summer 29 AD.}

7:32 And they bring to him one who was mute, who had a speech impediment, and they plead with him that* he might lay his hand upon him.
7:33 And having taken him away from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue;
7:34 and looking up to heaven, he groaned and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
7:35 And immediately his ears were opened and the bond of his tongue was loosed and he spoke plainly.
7:36 And he ordered them that* they should tell no one, but as many things as he ordered them, rather, they did preach it even-more.

7:37 And they were abundantly astounded, saying, He has done all things well; he makes* even the deaf, to hear and the mute, to speak.
{Footnotes: Mk 7:4a- Greek.: immerse*; same Greek as 7:4b &. Mk 7:8.}
{Mk 8:1-8:9 & Mt 15:32-39.}