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Matthew 15; Mark 7

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Matthew 15

1 Then Pharisees and legal experts came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
2 "Why are your disciples breaking the elders' rules handed down to us? They don't ritually purify their hands by washing before they eat."
3 Jesus replied, "Why do you break the command of God by keeping the rules handed down to you?
4 For God said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.
5 But you say, ‘If you tell your father or mother, Everything I'm expected to contribute to you I'm giving to God as a gift, then you don't have to honor your father.'
6 So you do away with God's Law for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you.
7 Hypocrites! Isaiah really knew what he was talking about when he prophesied about you,
8 This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
9 Their worship of me is empty since they teach instructions that are human rules."
10 Jesus called the crowd near and said to them, "Listen and understand.
11 It's not what goes into the mouth that contaminates a person in God's sight. It's what comes out of the mouth that contaminates the person."
12 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended by what you just said?"
13 Jesus replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father didn't plant will be pulled up.
14 Leave the Pharisees alone. They are blind people who are guides to blind people. But if a blind person leads another blind person, they will both fall into a ditch."
15 Then Peter spoke up, "Explain this riddle to us."
16 Jesus said, "Don't you understand yet?
17 Don't you know that everything that goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer?
18 But what goes out of the mouth comes from the heart. And that's what contaminates a person in God's sight.
19 Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adultery, sexual sins, thefts, false testimonies, and insults.
20 These contaminate a person in God's sight. But eating without washing hands doesn't contaminate in God's sight."
21 From there, Jesus went to the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
22 A Canaanite woman from those territories came out and shouted, "Show me mercy, Son of David. My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession."
23 But he didn't respond to her at all. His disciples came and urged him, "Send her away; she keeps shouting out after us."
24 Jesus replied, "I've been sent only to the lost sheep, the people of Israel."
25 But she knelt before him and said, "Lord, help me."
26 He replied, "It is not good to take the children's bread and toss it to dogs."
27 She said, "Yes, Lord. But even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall off their masters' table."
28 Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith. It will be just as you wish." And right then her daughter was healed.
29 Jesus moved on from there along the shore of the Galilee Sea. He went up a mountain and sat down.
30 Large crowds came to him, including those who were paralyzed, blind, injured, and unable to speak, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
31 So the crowd was amazed when they saw those who had been unable to speak talking, and the paralyzed cured, and the injured walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
32 Now Jesus called his disciples and said, "I feel sorry for the crowd because they have been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry for fear they won't have enough strength to travel."
33 His disciples replied, "Where are we going to get enough food in this wilderness to satisfy such a big crowd?"
34 Jesus said, "How much bread do you have?" They responded, "Seven loaves and a few fish."
35 He told the crowd to sit on the ground.
36 He took the seven loaves of bread and the fish. After he gave thanks, he broke them into pieces and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
37 Everyone ate until they were full. The disciples collected seven baskets full of leftovers.
38 Four thousand men ate, plus women and children.
39 After dismissing the crowds, Jesus got into the boat and came to the region of Magadan.
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Mark 7

1 The Pharisees and some legal experts from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.
2 They saw some of his disciples eating food with unclean hands. (They were eating without first ritually purifying their hands through washing.
3 The Pharisees and all the Jews don't eat without first washing their hands carefully. This is a way of observing the rules handed down by the elders.
4 Upon returning from the marketplace, they don't eat without first immersing themselves. They observe many other rules that have been handed down, such as the washing of cups, jugs, pans, and sleeping mats.)
5 So the Pharisees and legal experts asked Jesus, "Why are your disciples not living according to the rules handed down by the elders but instead eat food with ritually unclean hands?"
6 He replied, "Isaiah really knew what he was talking about when he prophesied about you hypocrites. He wrote, This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
7 Their worship of me is empty since they teach instructions that are human words.
8 You ignore God's commandment while holding on to rules created by humans and handed down to you."
9 Jesus continued, "Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God's commandment in order to establish these rules.
10 Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.
11 But you say, ‘If you tell your father or mother, Everything I'm expected to contribute to you is corban (that is, a gift I'm giving to God),
12 then you are no longer required to care for your father or mother.'
13 In this way you do away with God's word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that."
14 Then Jesus called the crowd again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15 Nothing outside of a person can enter and contaminate a person in God's sight; rather, the things that come out of a person contaminate the person."
17 After leaving the crowd, he entered a house where his disciples asked him about that riddle.
18 He said to them, "Don't you understand either? Don't you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?
19 That's because it doesn't enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer." By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God's sight.
20 "It's what comes out of a person that contaminates someone in God's sight," he said.
21 "It's from the inside, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come: sexual sins, thefts, murders,
22 adultery, greed, evil actions, deceit, unrestrained immorality, envy, insults, arrogance, and foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from the inside and contaminate a person in God's sight."
24 Jesus left that place and went into the region of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know that he had entered a house, but he couldn't hide.
25 In fact, a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard about him right away. She came and fell at his feet.
26 The woman was Greek, Syrophoenician by birth. She begged Jesus to throw the demon out of her daughter.
27 He responded, "The children have to be fed first. It isn't right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
28 But she answered, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
29 "Good answer!" he said. "Go on home. The demon has already left your daughter."
30 When she returned to her house, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
31 After leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus went through Sidon toward the Galilee Sea through the region of the Ten Cities.
32 Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they begged him to place his hand on the man for healing.
33 Jesus took him away from the crowd by himself and put his fingers in the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.
34 Looking into heaven, Jesus sighed deeply and said, "Ephphatha," which means, "Open up."
35 At once, his ears opened, his twisted tongue was released, and he began to speak clearly.
36 Jesus gave the people strict orders not to tell anyone. But the more he tried to silence them, the more eagerly they shared the news.
37 People were overcome with wonder, saying, "He does everything well! He even makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those who can't speak."
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