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¹ Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying,² Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they don't wash their hands when they eat bread.³ And he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?⁴ For God said, Honor your father and your mother: and, He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death.⁵ But you say, whoever shall say to his father or his mother, That with which you might have been profited by me is given [to God];⁶ he shall not honor his father. And you have made void the word of God because of your tradition.⁷ You hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,⁸ This people honors me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.⁹ But in vain they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

¹⁰ And he called to him the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand:¹¹ Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.¹² Then the disciples came, and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?¹³ But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant, shall be rooted up.¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.¹⁵ And Peter answered and said to him, Declare to us this parable.¹⁶ And he said, Are you also even yet without understanding?¹⁷ Do you not perceive, that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast out into the toilet?¹⁸ But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:²⁰ these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

²¹ And Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.²² And look, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried out, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.²³ But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and implored him, saying, Send her away; for she cries out after us.²⁴ But he answered and said, I was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.²⁵ But she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.²⁶ And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.²⁷ But she said, Yes, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it done to you even as you will. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

²⁹ And Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.³⁰ And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, maimed, mute, and many others, and they cast them down at his feet; and he healed them:³¹ insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.³² And Jesus called to him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I don't want to send them away fasting, lest perhaps they faint on the way.³³ And the disciples say to him, From where should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?³⁴ And Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you have? And they said, Seven, and a few small fish.³⁵ And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;³⁶ and he took the seven loaves and the fish; and he gave thanks and broke, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.³⁷ And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.³⁸ And those that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.³⁹ And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.