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(1) Then scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

(2) "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."

(3) But he answered and said to them, "Why do YOU also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

(4) For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and mother,' and, 'He that curses father or mother, let him surely be put to death.'

(5) But YOU say, 'Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, "Whatever you might have profited from me, it is a gift I gave to God,"

(6) so he need not honor his father or his mother with it.' Thus have YOU made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

(7) YOU hypocrites, truly 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) In vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

(10) Then he called the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

(11) It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

(12) Then his disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"

(13) He answered and said, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

(14) Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

(15) Then Peter answered and said to him, "Explain to us this parable."

(16) Then Jesus said, "Are YOU also still without understanding?

(17) Do YOU still not understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is expelled from the body into the sewer?

(18) But those things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.

(19) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

(20) These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

(21) Then Jesus left there, and departed to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

(22) Behold, a Canaanite woman came out of the same land, and cried to him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David, my daughter is grievously possessed with a devil."

(23) But he did not answer her with a word. So his disciples came and requested of him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."

(24) But he answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

(25) Then she came and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

(26) But he answered and said, "It is not proper to take the children’s bread, and to throw it to dogs."

(27) Then she said, "It is true, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

(28) Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith, let it be to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

(29) Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee, and went up on a mountain, and sat down there.

(30) And great multitudes came to him, bringing with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and set them down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them.

(31) So the multitude was amazed, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.

(32) Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and have nothing to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint along the way."

(33) And his disciples said to him, "Where could we find so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?"

(34) Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do YOU have?" And they said, "Seven, and a few little fish."

(35) So he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

(36) Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

(37) They all ate, and were filled, and they took up the broken pieces that were left and filled seven baskets full.

(38) Those that ate were 4,000 men, beside women and children.

(39) And he sent away the multitude, and took a ship, and came to the coasts of Magdala.