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(The Pharisees don't eat without first washing their hands, in order to comply with the customs of the elders. When they come back from the market place they don't eat unless they first purify themselves. And they observe many other customs, such as the washing of cups, pots and cooking vessels.*)

And the Pharisees and scholars asked him, "Why don't your disciples live according to the traditions of the elders, and instead eat their food with defiled hands?"

7.14-16
Jesus repeatedly called the crowd to him saying to them, "Listen all of you, and try to understand. Nothing that goes into a person can defile him. It's what comes out that defiles a person. Anyone who has two good ears had better listen!"

7.24, 26-28
Jesus once set out and travelled to the area around Tyre. He met a Greek-speaking woman, a Phoenician from Syria. She asked him to drive a demon out of her daughter.

Jesus responded by saying, "It's not right that food should be taken away from the Hebrews and chucked to the dogs! The Hebrews should be fed first."

The woman came back smartly: "Sir, even the dogs under the table get the children's scraps."

7.32-34
Some people brought to Jesus a man who was deaf and couldn't talk. Jesus took him aside away from the crowd. He put his fingers into the man's ears, spat, and touched the man's tongue. Jesus looked upwards, groaned deeply, and said to the man, "Ephphatha!" This means, "Open up!". At once the man ears opened up, his speech block went away, and he could talk with ease.

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*  This is really Mark's comment, which he's inserted to explain to his
    non-Jewish readers what's going on here. I've kept it as "history" because
    Mark is correct in what he says.

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