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15 : 1 Then Pharisees andscribes came to Jesusfrom Jerusalem and said,
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15 : 2 Why do your disciples breakthe tradition of the elders?For they do not wash their hands when they eat.
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15 : 3 He answered them,And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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15 : 4 For God commanded,Honor your father and your mother,and,Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.
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15 : 5 But you say,If anyone tells his father or his mother,What you would have gained from me is given to God,
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15 : 6 he need not honor his father.So for the sake of your tradition you havemade void the wordof God.
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15 : 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
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15 : 8 This people honors me with their lips,but their heart is far from me;
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15 : 9 in vain do they worship me,teaching asdoctrines the commandments of men.
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15 : 10 And he called the people to him and said to them,Hear and understand:
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15 : 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.
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15 : 12 Then the disciples came and said to him,Do you know that the Pharisees wereoffended when they heard this saying?
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15 : 13 He answered,Every plant that my heavenly Father has not plantedwill be rooted up.
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15 : 14 Let them alone;they are blind guides.Andif the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.
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15 : 15 But Peter said to him,Explain the parable to us.
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15 : 16 And he said,Are you also still without understanding?
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15 : 17 Do you not see thatwhatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
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15 : 18 Butwhat comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
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15 : 19 For out of the heart comeevil thoughts,murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness,slander.
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15 : 20 These are what defile a person. Butto eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.
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15 : 21 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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15 : 22 And behold,a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying,Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.
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15 : 23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying,Send her away, for she is crying out after us.
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15 : 24 He answered,I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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15 : 25 But she came andknelt before him, saying,Lord, help me.
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15 : 26 And he answered,It is not right to take the children's bread andthrow it to the dogs.
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15 : 27 She said,Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eatthe crumbs that fall from their masters' table.
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15 : 28 Then Jesus answered her,O woman,great is your faith!Be it done for you as you desire.And her daughter washealed instantly.
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15 : 29 Jesus went on from there and walkedbeside the Sea of Galilee. And hewent up on the mountain and sat down there.
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15 : 30 And great crowds came to him, bringing with themthe lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,
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15 : 31 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking,the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. Andthey glorifiedthe God of Israel.
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15 : 32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said,I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.
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15 : 33 And the disciples said to him,Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?
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15 : 34 And Jesus said to them,How many loaves do you have?They said,Seven, and a few small fish.
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15 : 35 And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground,
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15 : 36 he took the seven loaves and the fish, andhaving given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
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15 : 37 Andthey all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
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15 : 38 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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15 : 39 And after sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region ofMagadan.
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