Matthew 15:1
Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,
Matthew 15:2
Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew 15:3
But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?
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For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
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But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:
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and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.
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Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,
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This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;
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but in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings commandments of men.
Matthew 15:10
And having called to him the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:
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Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
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Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?
Matthew 15:13
But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.
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Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
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And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.
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But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?
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Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?
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but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.
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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
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these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.
Matthew 15:21
And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;
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and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried to him saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.
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But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to him and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.
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But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.
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But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.
Matthew 15:26
But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
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But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.
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Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith is great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.
Matthew 15:29
And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;
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and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:
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so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
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But Jesus, having called his disciples to him , said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.
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And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in the wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?
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And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
Matthew 15:35
And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;
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and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.
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And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;
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but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
Matthew 15:39
And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan.