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The traditions of the Pharisees
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Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem then came to Jesus and said,
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‘Why do your disciples break away from the tradition of the elders?[*a] They do not wash their hands when they eat food.’
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‘And why do you’ he answered ‘break away from the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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For God said: Do your duty to[*b] your father and mother and: Anyone who curses father or mother must be put to death.[*c]
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But you say, “If anyone says to his father or mother: Anything I have that I might have used to help you is dedicated to God”,
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he is rid of his duty to father or mother.[*d] In this way you have made God’s word null and void by means of your tradition.
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Hypocrites! It was you Isaiah meant when he so rightly prophesied:
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This people honours me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from me.
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The worship they offer me is worthless; the doctrines they teach are only human regulations.'[*e]
On clean and unclean
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He called the people to him and said, ‘Listen, and understand.
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What goes into the mouth does not make a man unclean; it is what comes out of the mouth that makes him unclean.’
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Then the disciples came to him and said, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked when they heard what you said?’
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He replied, ‘Any plant my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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Leave them alone. They are blind men leading blind men; and if one blind man leads another, both will fall into a pit.’
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At this, Peter said to him, ‘Explain the parable for us’.
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Jesus replied, ‘Do even you not yet understand?
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Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes through the stomach and is discharged into the sewer?
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But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is these that make a man unclean.
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For from the heart come evil intentions: murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander.
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These are the things that make a man unclean. But to eat with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.’
The daughter of the Canaanite woman healed
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Jesus left that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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Then out came a Canaanite woman from that district and started shouting, ‘Sir, Son of David, take pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a devil.’
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But he answered her not a word. And his disciples went and pleaded with him. ‘Give her what she wants,’ they said ‘because she is shouting after us.’
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He said in reply, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel’.
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But the woman had come up and was kneeling at his feet. ‘Lord,’ she said ‘help me.’
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He replied, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs’.
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She retorted, ‘Ah yes, sir; but even house-dogs can eat the scraps that fall from their master’s table’.
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Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, you have great faith. Let your wish be granted.’ And from that moment her daughter was well again.
Cures near the lake
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Jesus went on from there and reached the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and he went up into the hills. He sat there,
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and large crowds came to him bringing the lame, the crippled, the blind, the dumb and many others; these they put down at his feet, and he cured them.
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The crowds were astonished to see the dumb speaking, the cripples whole again, the lame walking and the blind with their sight, and they praised the God of Israel.
Second miracle of the loaves
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But Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them off hungry, they might collapse on the way.’
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The disciples said to him, ‘Where could we get enough bread in this deserted place to feed such a crowd?’
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Jesus said to them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ ‘Seven’ they said ‘and a few small fish.’
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Then he instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground,
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and he took the seven loaves and the fish, and he gave thanks and broke them and handed them to the disciples who gave them to the crowds.
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They all ate as much as they wanted, and they collected what was left of the scraps, seven baskets full.
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Now four thousand men had eaten, to say nothing of women and children.
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And when he had sent the crowds away he got into the boat and went to the district of Magadan.
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