Quotes About Faith

And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.

Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ëThese people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.í

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is Corbaní (that is, a gift devoted to God),

he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:

After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.

“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the childrenís bread and toss it to the dogs.”

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the childrenís crumbs.”

Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the manís ears. Then He spit and touched the manís tongue.

And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).