7:1 有法利賽人和幾個文士從耶路撒冷來，到耶穌那裡聚集。
7:2 他們曾看見他的門徒中有人用俗手，就是沒有洗的手，吃飯。
7:3 （原來法利賽人和猶太人都拘守古人的遺傳，若不仔細洗手就不吃飯；
7:4 從市上來，若不洗浴也不吃飯；還有好些別的規矩，他們歷代拘守，就是洗杯、罐、銅器等物。）
7:5 法利賽人和文士問他說：「你的門徒為甚麼不照古人的遺傳，用俗手吃飯呢？」
7:6 耶穌說：「以賽亞指著你們假冒為善之人所說的預言是不錯的。如經上說：這百姓用嘴唇尊敬我，心卻遠離我。
7:7 他們將人的吩咐當作道理教導人，所以拜我也是枉然。
7:8 你們是離棄上帝的誡命，拘守人的遺傳」；
7:9 又說：「你們誠然是廢棄上帝的誡命，要守自己的遺傳。
7:10 摩西說：『當孝敬父母』；又說：『咒罵父母的，必治死他。』
7:11 你們倒說：『人若對父母說：我所當奉給你的，已經作了各耳板』（各耳板就是供獻的意思），
7:12 以後你們就不容他再奉養父母。
7:13 這就是你們承接遺傳，廢了上帝的道。你們還做許多這樣的事。」
7:14 耶穌又叫眾人來，對他們說：「你們都要聽我的話，也要明白。
7:15 從外面進去的不能污穢人，惟有從裡面出來的乃能污穢人。」（有古卷加：
7:16 有耳可聽的，就應當聽！）
7:17 耶穌離開眾人，進了屋子，門徒就問他這比喻的意思。
7:18 耶穌對他們說：「你們也是這樣不明白嗎？豈不曉得凡從外面進入的，不能污穢人，
7:19 因為不是入他的心，乃是入他的肚腹，又落到茅廁裡。（這是說，各樣的食物都是潔淨的）」；
7:20 又說：「從人裡面出來的，那才能污穢人；
7:21 因為從裡面，就是從人心裡，發出惡念、苟合、
7:22 偷盜、凶殺、姦淫、貪婪、邪惡、詭詐、淫蕩、嫉妒、謗讟、驕傲、狂妄。
7:23 這一切的惡都是從裡面出來，且能污穢人。」
The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus 2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, 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. 4 When 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.[a])
5 So 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 defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These
people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’[b]
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe[c] your own traditions! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’[d] and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’[e] 11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” [16] [f]
17 After 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 person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
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主耶穌要法利賽人清楚聖潔不是從外表的行為來的，聖潔乃是要從心發出來的！若是只有外表的聖潔，內心的不聖潔，其所造成的後果是使人被汙穢，正如主耶穌所說：「從人裡面出來的，那才能污穢人；因為從裡面，就是從人心裡，發出惡念、苟合、偷盜、凶殺、姦淫、貪婪、邪惡、詭詐、淫蕩、嫉妒、謗讟、驕傲、狂妄。這一切的惡都是從裡面出來，且能污穢人。」
然而人的聖潔不是自己產生的，人的生命在亞當和夏娃犯罪以來，就已經被罪惡汙染了，人是無法除去自己的罪污，要透過上帝的作為人才可以重新成為聖潔，這也就是說聖潔是上帝賜給人的！
然而人如何得以聖潔呢？彼得前書1章18-19節說：「知道你們得贖，脫去你們祖宗所傳流虛妄的行為，不是憑著能壞的金銀等物，乃是憑著基督的寶血，如同無瑕疵、無玷污的羔羊之血。」
因此，我們要成為聖潔是透過耶穌基督的寶血，也因為這樣，聖潔不是修練來的，是領受來的！既然如此，我們要為自己有聖潔來將榮耀歸給上帝，並切要與其他的上帝兒女向世人做見證，讓主所揀選的人因聖靈在我們身上的作為，也認出自己也是靠基督的寶血而得著聖潔，將榮耀歸給上帝，而不是高舉自己的行為！
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