127 lines
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127 lines
4.8 KiB
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## God's Commandments, Man's Traditions
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Then some Pharisees and scribes *came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
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###### 2
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"Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
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And He answered and said to them, **"Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?**
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For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.'
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But you say, 'Whoever says to _his_ father or mother, "Whatever you might benefit from me is given _to God_,"
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he need not honor his father.' And _by this_ you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:
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'This people honors Me with their lips, **But their heart is far away from Me**.
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But in vain do they worship Me, **Teaching as** doctrines the commands of men.'"
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###### 10
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After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, **"Hear and understand.**
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_It is_ not what enters into the mouth _that_ defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
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Then the disciples *came and *said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"
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But He answered and said, **"Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.**
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Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
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## The Heart of Man
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Now Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain the parable to us."
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And Jesus said, **"Are you still lacking in understanding also?**
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Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and goes into the sewer?
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But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders.
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These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."
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## The Canaanite Woman
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And going away from there, Jesus withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and _began to_ cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed."
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But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and were pleading with Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us."
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But He answered and said, **"I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."**
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But she came and was bowing down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"
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And He answered and said, **"It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."**
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But she said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
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Then Jesus answered and said to her, **"O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish."** And her daughter was healed at once.
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## Jesus Heals the Crowds
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And departing from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there.
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And large crowds came to Him, bringing with them _those who were_ lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them.
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So the crowd marveled as they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
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## Jesus Feeds Four Thousand
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And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, **"I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."**
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And the disciples *said to Him, "Where would we get so many loaves in _this_ desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?"
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And Jesus *said to them, **"How many loaves do you have?"** And they said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
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And He directed the crowd to sit down on the ground;
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and He took the seven loaves and the fish; and giving thanks, He broke them and kept giving them to the disciples, and the disciples _gave them_ to the crowds.
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And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven _large_ baskets full.
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And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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And sending away the crowds, Jesus got into the boat and came to the region of Magadan.
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