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matthew 15
1 - Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
2 - "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
3 - He answered them,"Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4 - For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,'Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
5 - But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"
6 - he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
7 - You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8 - 'These people draw near to me with their mouth,and honor me with their lips;but their heart is far from me.
9 - And in vain do they worship me,teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"Isaiah 29:13
10 - He summoned the multitude, and said to them,"Hear, and understand.
11 - That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile 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,"Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
14 - Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
16 - So Jesus said,"Do you also still not understand?
17 - Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
18 - But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
19 - For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
20 - These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
21 - Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 - Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!"
23 - But he answered her not a word.His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
24 - But he answered,"I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25 - But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26 - But he answered,"It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
27 - But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
28 - Then Jesus answered her,"Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29 - Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
30 - Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
31 - so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing-and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 - Jesus summoned his disciples and said,"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
33 - The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
34 - Jesus said to them,"How many loaves do you have?"They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
35 - He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
36 - and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
37 - They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
38 - Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
39 - Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.
