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1 Then
Pharisees and
scribes came to
Jesus from
Jerusalem, saying,
2 “Why
do your disciples
disobey the
tradition of the
elders? For
they don’t wash
their hands when
they eat bread.”
3 He
answered them,
“Why do you
also disobey the
commandment of
God because of
your tradition?
4 For God
commanded, ‘Honor
your father and
your mother,’
and, ‘He who
speaks evil of
father or mother,
let him be
put to
death.’
5 But you say, ‘Whoever
may tell his
father or his
mother, “Whatever
help you might
otherwise have gotten
from me is
a gift devoted
to God,”
6 he shall not
honor his father
or mother.’ You
have made the
commandment of
God void because
of your
tradition.
7 You hypocrites!
Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you,
saying,
8 ‘These people draw near
to me with
their mouth,
and honor me
with their
lips;
but their heart
is far from
me.
9 And they
worship me in
vain,
teaching as
doctrine rules made
by men.’ ”
10 He
summoned the
multitude, and
said to them,
“Hear, and understand.
11 That which
enters into the
mouth doesn’t
defile the man;
but that which
proceeds out of
the mouth, this
defiles the
man.”
12 Then
the disciples came
and said to
him, “Do you
know that the
Pharisees were
offended when
they heard this
saying?”
13 But
he answered,
“Every plant
which my
heavenly Father didn’t
plant will be
uprooted.
14 Leave them alone.
They are blind
guides of the
blind. If the
blind guide the
blind, both will
fall into
a pit.”
15 Peter
answered him, “Explain
the parable to
us.”
16 So
Jesus said,
“Do you
also still not understand?
17 Don’t you
understand that
whatever goes
into the mouth
passes into the
belly and then
out of the
body?
18 But the things
which proceed
out of the
mouth come out
of the heart,
and they defile
the man.
19 For out of
the heart come
evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries,
sexual sins, thefts,
false testimony,
and blasphemies.
20 These are the
things which
defile the man;
but to eat
with unwashed hands doesn’t
defile the
man.”
21 Jesus
went out from
there and withdrew
into the region of
Tyre and Sidon.
22 Behold,
a Canaanite woman
came out from
those borders and
cried, saying, “Have
mercy on me,
Lord, you son
of David! My
daughter is severely possessed
by a demon!”
23 But
he answered her
not a word.
His disciples
came and begged
him, saying, “Send
her away; for she
cries after us.”
24 But
he answered,
“I wasn’t sent
to anyone but
the lost sheep
of the house
of Israel.”
25 But
she came and
worshiped him,
saying, “Lord, help
me.”
26 But
he answered,
“It is
not appropriate to
take the
children’s bread and throw
it to the
dogs.”
27 But
she said, “Yes,
Lord, but even
the dogs eat
the crumbs which
fall from their
masters’ table.”
28 Then
Jesus answered her,
“Woman, great
is your faith!
Be it done
to you even
as you
desire.”
And her daughter
was healed from
that hour.
29 Jesus
departed from
there and came
near to the
sea of Galilee;
and he went
up on the
mountain and sat
there.
30 Great
multitudes came to
him, having with
them the lame,
blind, mute,
maimed, and many
others, and they
put them down
at his feet.
He healed them,
31 so
that the multitude
wondered when
they saw the mute
speaking, the injured
healed, the lame
walking, and the
blind seeing—and
they glorified the
God of Israel.
32 Jesus
summoned his
disciples and said,
“I have
compassion on
the multitude,
because they
have continued with
me now three
days and have
nothing to eat.
I don’t want
to send them away
fasting, or they
might faint on
the way.”
33 The
disciples said to
him, “Where could
we get so
many loaves in
a deserted place
as to satisfy
so great a
multitude?”
34 Jesus
said to them,
“How many loaves
do you
have?”
They said, “Seven,
and a few
small fish.”
35 He
commanded the
multitude to sit down
on the ground;
36 and
he took the
seven loaves and
the fish. He
gave thanks and
broke them, and
gave to the
disciples, and the
disciples to the
multitudes.
37 They
all ate and
were filled. They
took up seven
baskets full of
the broken pieces
that were left
over.
38 Those
who ate were
four thousand men,
in addition to
women and children.
39 Then
he sent away the
multitudes, got
into the boat,
and came into
the borders of
Magdala.