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Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying, |
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Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. |
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But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching? |
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For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death. |
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But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited: |
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and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. |
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Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying, |
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This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me; |
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but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men. |
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And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand: |
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Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man. |
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Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended? |
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But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. |
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Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch. |
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And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable. |
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But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence? |
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Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught? |
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but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man. |
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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; |
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these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man. |
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And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon; |
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and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon. |
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But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us. |
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But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house. |
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But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me. |
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But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs. |
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But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters. |
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Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is] great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour. |
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And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there; |
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and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them: |
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so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. |
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But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way. |
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And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd? |
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And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes. |
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And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground; |
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and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd. |
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And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full; |
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but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. |
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And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan. |
