1THEN some of the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came and asked Jesus,
2"Why do your disciples break our ancient tradition and eat their food without washing their hands properly first?"
3"Tell me," replied Jesus, "why do you break God's commandment through your tradition?
4For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother',and 'He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.'
5But you say that if a man tells his father or a his mother, 'Whatever duty I might have owed you is now given to God,'
6then he will never honour his father again. And so your tradition makes the commandment of God ineffectual.
7You hypocrites! Isaiah described you beautifully when he said:
8This people honoureth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.
9But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of man."
10Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen, and understand this thoroughly!
11It is not what goes into a men's mouth that makes him common or unclean. It is what comes [out] of a man's mouth that makes him unclean."
12Later his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees are deeply offended by what you said?"
13"Every plant which my Heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots" returned Jesus.
14"Let them alone. They are blind guides, and when one blind man leads another blind man they will both fall into the ditch!"
15"Explain this parable to us," broke in Peter.
16"Are you still as dull as the others?" asked Jesus.
17"Don't you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then out of the body altogether?
18But the things that come out of a man's mouth come from his heart and mind, and it is they that really make a man unclean.
19For it is from a man's mind that evil thoughts arisemurder, adultery, lust, theft, perjury and slander.
20These are the things which make a man unclean, not eating without washing his hands properly!"
21Jesus then left that place and retired into the Tyre and Sidon district.
22There a Canaanite woman from those parts came to him crying at the top of her voice, "Lord, son of David, have pity on me! My daughter is in a terrible statea devil has got into her!"
23Jesus made no answer, and the disciples came up to him and said, "Do send her awayshe's still following us and calling out."
24"I was only sent," replied Jesus, "to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25Then the woman came and knelt at his feet. "Lord, help me," she said.
26"It is not right, you know," Jesus replied, "to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
27"Yes, Lord, I know, but even the dogs live on the scraps that fall from their master's table!"
28"You certainly don't lack faith," returned Jesus, "it shall be as you wish." And at that moment her daughter was healed.
29Jesus left there, walked along the shore of the lake of Galilee then climbed the hill and sat down.
30And great crowds came to him, bringing with them people who were lame, blind, crippled, dumb and many others. They simply laid them at his feet and he healed them.
31The result was that the people were astonished at seeing dumb men speak, crippled men healed, lame men walking about and blind men having recovered their sight. And they praised the God of Israel.
32But Jesus quietly called his disciples to him. "My heart goes out to this crowd," he said. "They've stayed with me three days now and have no more food. I don't want to send them home without anything to eat or they will collapse on the way."
33"Where could we find enough food to feed such a crowd in this deserted spot?" said the disciples.
34"How many loaves have you?" asked Jesus. "Seven, and a few small fish," they replied.
35Then Jesus told the crowd to sit down comfortably on the ground.
36And when he had taken the seven loaves and the fish into his hands, he broke them with a prayer of thanksgiving and gave them to the disciples to pass on to the people.
37Everybody ate and was satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets full of the pieces left over.
38Those who are numbered four thousand men, apart from women and children.
39Then Jesus sent the crowds home, boarded the boat and arrived at the district of Magadan.
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