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| 15:1 |
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
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| 15:2 |
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat."
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| 15:3 |
He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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| 15:4 |
For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.'
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| 15:5 |
But you say that whoever tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,' then that person need not honor the father.
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| 15:6 |
So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.
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| 15:7 |
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
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| 15:8 |
'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
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| 15:9 |
in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'"
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| 15:10 |
Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand:
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| 15:11 |
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles."
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| 15:12 |
Then the disciples approached and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?"
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| 15:13 |
He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
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| 15:14 |
Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit."
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| 15:15 |
But Peter said to him, "Explain this parable to us."
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| 15:16 |
Then he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
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| 15:17 |
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?
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| 15:18 |
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.
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| 15:19 |
For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
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| 15:20 |
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile."
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| 15:21 |
Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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| 15:22 |
Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon."
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| 15:23 |
But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us."
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| 15:24 |
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
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| 15:25 |
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."
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| 15:26 |
He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
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| 15:27 |
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
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| 15:28 |
Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.
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| 15:29 |
After Jesus had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat down.
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| 15:30 |
Great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them,
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| 15:31 |
so that the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
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| 15:32 |
Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."
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| 15:33 |
The disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?"
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| 15:34 |
Jesus asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
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| 15:35 |
Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,
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| 15:36 |
he took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
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| 15:37 |
And all of them ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
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| 15:38 |
Those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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| 15:39 |
After sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
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