¹ Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, ² Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. ³ But he answered and said to them, Why do you also break the commandment of God by your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honour your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵ But you say, Whoever+ will say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by anything+ you might be profited by me; ⁶ And honour not his father or his mother, he will be free. So have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, ⁸ This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. ⁹ But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ¹⁰ And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand: ¹¹ Not that which goes into the mouth corrupts a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this corrupts a man. ¹² Then came his disciples, and said to him, Knowe you that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? ¹³ But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, will be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. ¹⁵ Then answered Peter and said to him, Declare to us this parable. ¹⁶ And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding? ¹⁷ Do not you yet understand, that anything enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? ¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forward from the heart; and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: ²⁰ These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands corrupts not a man. ²¹ Then Jesus went from there, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And, see, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. ²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us. ²⁴ But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ²⁵ Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. ²⁶ But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. ²⁷ And she said, Truth, Lord: yet+ the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it to you even as you will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. ²⁹ And Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. ³⁰ And great multitudes came to him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: ³¹ So much that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. ³² Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing+ to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, in case they faint in the way. ³³ And his disciples say to him, Where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. ³⁵ And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. ³⁶ And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. ³⁷ And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. ³⁸ And those did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. ³⁹ And he sent away the multitude, and took ship+ , and came into the coasts of Magdala.