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15:1  Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
15:2  ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.’
15:3  He answered them, ‘And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
15:4  For God said, “Honour your father and your mother,” and, “Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.”
15:5  But you say that whoever tells father or mother, “Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God”, then that person need not honour the father.
15:6  So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.
15:7  You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
15:8  “This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
15:9  in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.”’
15:10  Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand:
15:11  it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’
15:12  Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’
15:13  He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
15:14  Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’
15:15  But Peter said to him, ‘Explain this parable to us.’
15:16  Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding?
15:17  Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?
15:18  But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.
15:19  For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
15:20  These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’
15:21  Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
15:22  Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’
15:23  But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’
15:24  He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’
15:25  But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’
15:26  He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’
15:27  She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’
15:28  Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was healed instantly.
15:29  After Jesus had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat down.
15:30  Great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them,
15:31  so that the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
15:32  Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.’
15:33  The disciples said to him, ‘Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?’
15:34  Jesus asked them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ They said, ‘Seven, and a few small fish.’
15:35  Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,
15:36  he took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
15:37  And all of them ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
15:38  Those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.
15:39  After sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.