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1 Then the Pharisees and scribes came forth from Jerusalem to Yahshua, saying: 2 "For what reason do Your students transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash the hands when they eat bread!" 3 And replying He said to them: "For what reason then do you transgress the commandment of Yahweh by your tradition? 4 For Yahweh said 'Honor the father and the mother', and 'He speaking evil of father or mother must die by sentence of death'. 5 But you say 'Whoever should say to father or mother: 'Whatever you may benefit from me is a gift', 6 shall by no means honor his father', and you have made void the Word of Yahweh by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying: 8 'This people honors Me with the lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 And vainly do they worship Me, teaching for education the commandments of men.'" 10 And calling to the crowd He said to them: "You hear and understand! 11 That which goes into the mouth does not defile the man, but that coming out from the mouth, this defiles the man!" 12 Then the students having come forth say to Him: "Do You know that the Pharisees are offended hearing the Word?" 13 Then He replying said: "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted! 14 Leave them alone, they are blind leaders, and if the blind should lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch!" 15 Then responding Petros said to Him "Elucidate the parable for us!" 16 And He said: "Still also are you without understanding? 17 Do you not perceive that everything going into the mouth is contained in the belly and cast out in the latrine? 18 But the things coming out from the mouth come out from the heart, and these things defile the man. 19 For from out of the heart come evil arguments, murders, acts of adultery, acts of fornication, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands would not defile the man." 21 And having departed from there Yahshua withdrew into the regions of Turos and Sidon. 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from those borders having come out cried out saying "Pity me, Master, Son of David! My sick daughter is possessed by a demon!" 23 But He did not respond to her a word. And coming forth His students begged Him saying: "Dismiss her, for she cries out from behind us!" 24 Then replying He said: "I have not been sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel!" 25 But she coming makes obeisance to Him, saying "Master, help me!" 26 But He responding said "It is not good to take the bread of the children and to cast it to the little dogs!" 27 Then she said "Yes, Master, yet the little dogs eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their masters!" 28 Then replying Yahshua said to her: "O woman, great is your belief! It must be for you as you desire." And her daughter had been healed from that moment. 29 And passing over from there Yahshua went by the sea of Galilaia, and ascending into the mountain sat there. 30 And there came to Him many crowds having among themselves the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others and they cast them by His feet, and He healed them, 31 so that the crowd wonders seeing the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, and the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they honored the God of Israel. 32 Then Yahshua summoning His students said: "I am deeply moved by the crowd, because already three days they remain with Me and they do not have anything to eat, and I do not wish to dismiss them fasting, lest they should faint on the road." 33 And the students say to Him: "From where for us in the desert are there so many loaves so as to feed such a crowd?" 34 And Yahshua says to them "How many loaves do you have?" And they said "Seven, and a few small fish." 35 And commanding the crowd to recline upon the ground 36 He took the seven wheat-loaves and the fish and blessing, broke and gave them to the students, and the students to the crowds, 37 and they all ate and were filled. And they took the excess of the fragments, filling seven creels. 38 And those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children. 39 And releasing the crowds He had boarded into a vessel and came to the regions of Magadan.