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Jesus Teaches about Inner Purity
Some Pharisees and teachers of religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked him,
Some Pharisees and teachers of religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked him,
Tradition and Vain Worship
Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,
Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,
“Why do your disciples disobey our age-old tradition? For they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat.”
Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Jesus replied, “And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God?
But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?
For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’
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:
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.
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,
Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,
‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
but their hearts are far from me.
This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;
but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men.
Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said, “and try to understand.
What Defiles a Man
And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:
And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:
It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.”
Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you realize you offended the Pharisees by what you just said?”
Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?
Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted,
But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.
so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch.”
Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable that says people aren’t defiled by what they eat.”
And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.
“Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked.
But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?
“Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.
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?
But the words you speak come from the heart — that’s what defiles you.
but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.
The Faith of a Gentile Woman
Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
The Faith of the Canaanite Woman
And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;
And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;
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.
But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
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.
Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep — the people of Israel.”
But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.
But she came and worshiped him, pleading again, “Lord, help me!”
But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.
Jesus responded, “It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs.”
But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even dogs are allowed to eat the scraps that fall beneath their masters’ table.”
But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.
“Dear woman,” Jesus said to her, “your faith is great. Your request is granted.” And her daughter was instantly healed.
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.
Jesus Heals Many People
Jesus returned to the Sea of Galilee and climbed a hill and sat down.
The Feeding of the Four Thousand
And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;
And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;
A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.
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:
The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn’t been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel.
so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
Jesus Feeds Four Thousand
Then Jesus called his disciples and told them, “I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, or they will faint along the way.”
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.
The disciples replied, “Where would we get enough food here in the wilderness for such a huge crowd?”
And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?
Jesus asked, “How much bread do you have?”
They replied, “Seven loaves, and a few small fish.”
They replied, “Seven loaves, and a few small fish.”
And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground.
And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;
Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, thanked God for them, and broke them into pieces. He gave them to the disciples, who distributed the food to the crowd.
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.
They all ate as much as they wanted. Afterward, the disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food.
And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;
There were 4,000 men who were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children.
but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.