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Then scholars and Pharisees from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying,
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Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
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And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition?
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For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.
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But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering.
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And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.
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Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,
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This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.
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And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
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And having called in the multitude, he said to them, Hear and understand.
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Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
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Then having come near, his disciples said to him, Know thou that the Pharisees were offended when they heard the saying?
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But having answered, he said, Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant, will be uprooted.
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Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.
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And having answered, Peter said to him, Explain this parable to us.
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And Jesus said, Are ye also still without understanding?
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Do ye not yet understand, that everything entering into the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into a toilet?
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But the things coming out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things defile the man.
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For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, revilings.
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These are things defiling the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
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And having gone out from there, Jesus departed into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
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And behold, a Canaanite woman having come out from those regions, cried out to him, saying, Be merciful to me, O Lord, thou son of David, my daughter is grievously demon-possessed.
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But he answered her not a word. And his disciples having approached, they besought him, saying, Send her away, because she cries out behind us.
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But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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But having come, she worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.
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And having answered, he said, It is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the house dogs.
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But she said, Yes, Lord, for even the house dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.
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Then Jesus having answered, said to her, O woman, great is thy faith. Be it done for thee as thou desire. And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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And having departed from there, Jesus came near the sea of Galilee. And having gone up onto the mountain, he sat there.
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And many multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, crippled, and many others. And they placed them beside Jesus' feet, and he healed them,
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so as for the multitudes to marvel seeing the mute speaking, the maimed healthy, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
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And Jesus having summoned his disciples, he said, I feel compassion toward the multitude because they continue with me now three days and do not have what they might eat. And I do not want to dismiss them without food, lest they might faint on the way.
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And his disciples say to him, From where are so many loaves for us in a wilderness so as to feed so great a multitude?
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And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
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And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the ground.
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And after taking the seven loaves and the fishes, having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
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And they all ate and were filled. And they took up seven hampers full of the fragments that remained.
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And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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And having dismissed the multitudes, he entered into the boat, and came into the regions of Magdala.