151Then 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.”+3He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? +4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’+5But 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,” +6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. +7You 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.+9And in vain do they worship me,teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”+
10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand. +11That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”+12Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”+13But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. +14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”+15Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”+16So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand? +17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? +18But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. +19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. +20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”+
21Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.+22Behold, 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!”+23But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”+24But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”+25But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”+26But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”+27But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”+28Then 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.+
29Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.+30Great 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,+31so 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.+32Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue 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.” +33The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”+34Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”+35He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;+36and 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.+37They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.+38Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. 39Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.+
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