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[1] AND there gathered to him Pharishee and Sophree, who had come from Urishlem;
[2] And they saw some of his disciples eating bread with their hands not washed; and they complained.
[3] For all the Jihudoyee and Pharishee, unless they carefully wash their hands, do not eat, because they hold the tradition of the elders;
[4] And [coming] from the market, unless they lave,ⓘ they eat not. And many other of those [things] there are which they have received to observe, [as] the baptisms of cups, and of measures, and of brasen utensils, and of beds.
[5] And the Sophree and Pharishee questioned him, Why do not your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders; but, while their hands are not washed, eat bread?
[6] But he said to them, Well prophesied concerning you Eshaia the prophet, you hypocrites;ⓘ as it is written, This people with their lips honour me, but their heart is very far from me.
[7] But in vain do they reverence me while they teach the teachings of the commandments of men.ⓘ
[8] For you have abandoned the commandment of God and hold the tradition of men, as the baptisms of cups and measures, and many things like these.
[9] He said to them [moreover], You decentlyⓘ suppress the commandment of God, that you may establish your tradition.
[10] For Musha hath said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and whosoever curseth father and mother, the death he shall die.
[11] But you say, If a man shall say to his father, or to his mother, My oblation, [be that] whatever from me thou mayest profit;
[12] And you permit him not to do any thing for his father and his mother.
[13] But you reject the word of Aloha for the sake of the tradition which you have delivered: and many similar [observances] to these you practise.
[14] And Jeshu called the whole multitude, and said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand:
[15] It is not that which is without the man, and which entereth into him, that can defile him: but that which proceedeth from him, that defileth a man.
[16] He who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
[17] But when Jeshu had gone into the house [apart] from the multitude, his disciples asked him concerning that parable.
[18] He said to them, How dull are even you! Know you not, that nothing from without that entereth a man can defile him,
[19] Because it entereth not into his heart, but into his belly, and is cast out in the purgation which all food purgeth?
[20] But that which proceedeth from a man, that polluteth a man.
[21] For from within, from the heart of the sons of men, go forth evil thoughts, adultery, fornication,
[22] Robbery, murder, rapacity, malice, fraud, obscenity, an evil eye, blasphemy, vain-glory, folly;
[23] All these evils come from within, and they defile a man.
[24] FROM thence Jeshu arose and went to the confine of Tsur and of Tsaidon, and entered into a certain house: and he was unwilling that any man should know of him, but he could not conceal.
[25] For immediately heard a certain woman concerning him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit; and she came, [and] fell before his feet.
[26] But that woman was a Gentile of Phuniki of Suria, and she prayed of him to cast out the demon from her daughter.
[27] But Jeshu said to her, Let the children first be filled; for it is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
[28] But she answering said to him, Yes, my Lord, yet the dogs also from beneath the table eat the crumbs of the children.
[29] Jeshu saith to her, Go; on account of that word, the demon hath gone forth from thy daughter.
[30] And she went to her house, and found her daughter lying on the couch, and [that] the demon had gone out from her.
[31] Jeshu again departed from the confine of Tsur and of Tsaidon, and came to the sea of Galila, on the confine of the Ten Cities;
[32] And they brought to him a blind man, a stammerer, and besought him to lay upon him the hand.
[33] And he took him aside from the crowd by himself, and put his fingers in his ears, and spat, and touched his tongue.
[34] And he looked up to heaven, and sighed, and said to him, Be opened:ⓘ
[35] And in that hour his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plainly.ⓘ
[36] And he charged them that to no man they should tell this. But so much as he charged them, they the more proclaimed it;
[37] And they were exceedingly astonished, and said, He doeth every thing well; the deaf he maketh to hear, and them who spoke not, to speak.
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