¹ Then come to Jesus Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem, saying,

² Why do thy disciples transgress 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 ye too transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

⁴ For God commanded, saying, "Honor thy father and thy mother;" and, "He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die."

⁵ But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever thou mightst receive in aid from me is a gift [to God],

⁶ he shall not honor his father or his mother. Thus have ye made void the law of God for the sake of your tradition.

⁷ Hypocrites! well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying,

⁸ "This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁹ But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."

¹⁰ And calling the multitude, he said to them, Hear, and understand.

¹¹ Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

¹² Then come the disciples, and say to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard that saying?

¹³ But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be rooted up.

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

¹⁵ And Peter answering said to him, Explain to us that dark saying.

¹⁶ And he said, Are ye too still without discernment?

¹⁷ Do ye not understand, that whatever entereth the mouth goeth into the stomach, and is cast out into the drain?

¹⁸ But the things which proceed from the mouth come out of the heart; and these defile a man.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.

²⁰ These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man.

²¹ And Jesus, going from thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon.

²² And, lo! a woman of Canaan came out from those borders, and cried out, saying, Have compassion on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously afflicted with a demon.

²³ But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying Send her away, for she is crying out after us.

²⁴ But he answered and said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁵ Then she came and fell down before him, saying, Lord, help me!

²⁶ But he answering said, It is not allowable to take the children’s bread, and throw it to the little dogs.

²⁷ And she said, Yea, Lord; for the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

²⁸ Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, great is thy faith; be it done to thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was cured from that hour.

²⁹ And departing thence, Jesus came near the lake of Galilee; and going up the mountain, he sat down there.

³⁰ And great multitudes came to him, having with them those who were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at his feet, and he healed them;

³¹ so that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed sound, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

³² And Jesus having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the road.

³³ And the disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

³⁵ And bidding the multitude to lie down on the ground,

³⁶ he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

³⁷ And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained, seven baskets full.

³⁸ And they who ate were four thousand men, besides children and women.

³⁹ Then he sent away the multitudes, and went on board the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.