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1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
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Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
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Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
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And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
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For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’
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But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God];
6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
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Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8 “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
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This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.
9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”
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But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.
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And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
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Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.
12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”
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Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?
13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
14 Leave them; they are blind guides.If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
15 Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”
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And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us the parable.
16 “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.
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And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding?
17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
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Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
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But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
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these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
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And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.
23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
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But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
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But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
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But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
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And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
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But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
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Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29 Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down.
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And Jesus departed thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
30 Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.
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And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at this feet; and he healed them:
31 The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
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insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”
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And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint on the way.
33 His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”
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And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?
34 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”
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And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
35 He told the crowd to sit down on the ground.
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And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
36 Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people.
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and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
37 They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
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And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
38 The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children.
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And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.
39 After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan.
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And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.
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