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| | Mat 15:1 | Then there came to Jesus a party of Pharisees and Scribes from Jerusalem, who inquired,
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| | Mat 15:2 | "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"
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| | Mat 15:3 | "Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?
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| | Mat 15:4 | For God said, <`Honour thy father and thy mother';> and <`Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';>
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| | Mat 15:5 | but you--this is what you say: `If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me--
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| | Mat 15:6 | he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.
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| | Mat 15:7 | Hypocrites! well did Isaiah prophesy of you,
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| | Mat 15:8 | <"`This is a People who honour Me with their lips, while their heart is far away from Me;
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| | Mat 15:9 | but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'">
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| | Mat 15:10 | Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, "Hear and understand.
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| | Mat 15:11 | It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man."
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| | Mat 15:12 | Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?"
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| | Mat 15:13 | "Every plant," He replied, "which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
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| | Mat 15:14 | Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into some pit."
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| | Mat 15:15 | "Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.
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| | Mat 15:16 | "Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?
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| | Mat 15:17 | Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?
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| | Mat 15:18 | But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.
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| | Mat 15:19 | For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.
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| | Mat 15:20 | These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile."
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| | Mat 15:21 | Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew into the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon.
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| | Mat 15:22 | Here a Canaanitish woman of the district came out and persistently cried out, "Sir, Son of David, pity me; my daughter is cruelly harassed by a demon."
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| | Mat 15:23 | But He answered her not a word. Then the disciples interposed, and begged Him, saying, "Send her away because she keeps crying behind us."
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| | Mat 15:24 | "I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," He replied.
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| | Mat 15:25 | Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. "O Sir, help me," she said.
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| | Mat 15:26 | "It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
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| | Mat 15:27 | "Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables."
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| | Mat 15:28 | "O woman," replied Jesus, "great is your faith: be it done to you as you desire." And from that moment her daughter was restored to health.
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| | Mat 15:29 | Again, moving thence, Jesus went along by the Lake of Galilee; and ascending the hill, He sat down there.
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| | Mat 15:30 | Soon great crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were crippled in feet or hands, blind or dumb, and many besides, and they hastened to lay them at His feet. And He cured them,
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| | Mat 15:31 | so that the people were amazed to see the dumb speaking, the maimed with their hands perfect, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they gave the glory to the God of Israel.
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| | Mat 15:32 | But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road."
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| | Mat 15:33 | "Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?"
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| | Mat 15:34 | "How many loaves have you?" Jesus asked. "Seven," they said, "and a few small fish."
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| | Mat 15:35 | So He bade all the people sit down on the ground,
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| | Mat 15:36 | and He took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks He broke them up and then distributed them to the disciples, and they to the people.
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| | Mat 15:37 | And they all ate and were satisfied. The broken portions that remained over they took up--seven full hampers.
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| | Mat 15:38 | Those who ate were 4,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.
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| | Mat 15:39 | He then dismissed the people, went on board the boat, and came into the district of Magadan.
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