Mark 7

Jesus rebukes the Pharisees and scribes for prioritizing human traditions like *corban* over God's commandments, quoting Isaiah to condemn their hypocrisy, and teaches the crowd that defilement comes from the heart, not external foods. He heals a Syrophoenician woman's demon-possessed daughter after her persistent faith and, in the Decapolis, heals a deaf man with a speech impediment, saying '*Ephphatha*' ('Be opened'), prompting widespread astonishment despite his command for silence.[1][2]

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