Matthew

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?"

For God commanded, saying, "Honour your father and your mother," and: "He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death."

But you say, whoever shall say to his father or his mother, "It is a gift, by whatever you might have been profited by me;"

"And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition."

"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.'

"But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand:

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

Then came his disciples, and said to him, "Know you that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"

But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted."

"Leave them alone: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit."

Then answered Peter and said to him, "Declare to us this parable."

And Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?"

"Do you not yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out?"

"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man."

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, slanders:"

"These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil."

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, "Send her away; for she cris after us."

But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs."

And she said, "Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh to the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

And great multitudes came to Him, bringing with them the lame, blind, mute, crippled, and many others; and they laid them at His feet, and He healed them.

So the multitude marvelled when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, "My heart goes out to the multitude, because they have been with Me three days now and have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, for they might collapse on the journey."

And his disciples say to him, Where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven, and a few little fish."

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitude.

So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left.

Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

And He sent away the multitude, got into the boat, and came to the region of Magdala.