Passage: Clean and Unclean, The Faith of a Syrophoenician Woman, The Healing of a Deaf and Mute Man
Notes: (v.1-13) The Pharisees came and saw that Jesus' disciples eating with "unclean" hands, and questioned Jesus about it. Jesus responded by calling them hypocrites, and verifying the words of Isaiah (ref. Isaiah 29:13) when he said that people honor Jesus with their lips, but worship him in vain as their hearts are from from Him.
They have nullified the word of God by their tradition
-(v.15) "Nothing outside a man came make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean"
-(v.20-23) "He went on: 'What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'"
-(v.24-30) A woman who had a daughter possessed by an evil spirit came to Jesus and begged him to drive out the demon. Jesus told her that "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs" (referring to her background?)
The woman replied that even dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. At this, Jesus healed her daughter because of her faith.
-(v.31-37) When Jesus went through Sidon and down to the Sea of Galilee, some people brought him a deaf and mate man. Jesus took him aside and put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. Jesus looked to heaven and said, "Be opened!" The man's tongue was loosened and was able to speak, and his ears were opened. When the people heard of this, they were amazed.
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