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¹ Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees who were of Jerusalem, saying,² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?³ For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answering said, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God thro' your tradition?⁴ For God commanded, Honour thy father and mother: and He that revileth father or mother, let him die the death.⁵ But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me:⁶ Let him not honour his father or his mother. Thus have ye made void the command of God thro' your tradition.⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophecy of you, saying,⁸ This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.⁹ But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

¹⁰ And calling the multitudes he said to them, Hear and understand.¹¹ Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man, but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth the man.¹² Then came his disciples and said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees, hearing this saying, were offended?¹³ He answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind: but if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a ditch.¹⁵ Then answered Peter and said to him, Declare to us this parable.¹⁶ And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?¹⁷ Do not ye yet understand, that whatever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the vault?¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth, come out of the heart, and they defile the man.¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.²⁰ These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

²¹ And Jesus going thence, retired to the coast of Tyre and Sidon.²² And behold a woman of Canaan, of those coasts, came and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us.²⁴ But he answering said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.²⁵ Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.²⁶ But he answering said, It is not right, to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.²⁷ And she said, True, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.²⁸ And Jesus answering said to her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

²⁹ And Jesus passing thence, came nigh the sea of Galilee; and going up into a mountain, he sat down there.³⁰ And great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, disabled, and many others; and cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them:³¹ So that the multitudes wondered, seeing the dumb to speak, the disabled whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.³² Then Jesus calling his disciples to him said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.³³ And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in a wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude?³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, How many loaves have you?³⁵ They said, Seven, and a few small fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass.³⁶ And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, he gave thanks and brake them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.³⁷ And they all ate and were satisfied, and they took up of the fragments that remained seven baskets full.³⁸ And they that had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.³⁹ And having sent away the multitude, he took ship again, and came into the coasts of Magdala.