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[1]Thencame to Jesus the Scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
[2]Whydo thy disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
[3]Buthe answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
[4]ForGod hath commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
[5]Butye say, Whosoever shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou mayest have profit,
[6]Thoughhe honor not his father, or his mother, shall be free: thus have ye made the commandment of God of no authority by your tradition.
[7]Ohypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,
[8]Thispeople draweth near unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with the lips, but their heart is far off from me.
[9]Butin vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.
[10]Thenhe called the multitude unto him, and said to them, Hear and understand.
[11]Thatwhich goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, that defileth the man.
[12]Thencame his disciples, and said unto him, Perceivest thou not, that the Pharisees are offended in hearing this saying?
[13]Buthe answered and said, Every plant which mine heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
[14]Letthem alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind: and if the blind lead you blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
[15]Thenanswered Peter, and said to him, Declare unto us this parable.
[16]Thensaid Jesus, Are ye yet without understanding?
[17]Perceiveye not yet, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
[18]Butthose things which proceed out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.
[19]Forout of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slanders.
[20]Theseare the things, which defile the man: but to eat with unwashen hands, defileth not the man.
[21]AndJesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
[22]Andbehold, a woman a Canaanite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying unto him, Have mercy on me, O Lord, the son of David: my daughter is miserably vexed with a devil.
[23]Buthe answered her not a word. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she cryeth after us.
[24]Buthe answered, and said, I am not sent, but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
[25]Yetshe came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
[26]Andhe answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.
[27]Butshe said, Truth, Lord: yet indeed the whelps eat of the crumbs, which fall from their master's table.
[28]ThenJesus answered, and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was made whole at that hour.
[29]SoJesus went away from thence, and came near unto the sea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain and sat down there.
[30]Andgreat multitudes came unto him, having with them, halt, blind, dumb, maimed and many other, and cast them down at Jesus feet, and he healed them.
[31]Inso much that the multitude wondered, to see the dumb speak, the maimed whole, the halt to go, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
[32]ThenJesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on this multitude, because they have continued with me already three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not let them depart fasting, lest they faint in the way.
[33]Andhis disciples said unto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wilderness, as should suffice so great a multitude!
[34]AndJesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
[35]Thenhe commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground,
[36]Andtook the seven loaves, and the fishes, and gave thanks, and break them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
[37]Andthey did all eat, and were sufficed: and they took up of the fragments that remained, seven baskets full.
[38]Andthey that had eaten, were four thousand men, beside women, and little children.
[39]ThenJesus sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the parts of Magdala.
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