Matt 15
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Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying:
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Why do thy disciples trangress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their
hands when they eat bread.
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But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God
for your tradition? For God said:
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Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die
the death.
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But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth
from me, shall profit thee.
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And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment
of God for your tradition.
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Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:
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This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.
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And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.
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And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand.
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Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth,
this defileth a man.
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Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when
they heard this word, were scandalized?
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But he answering them, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted,
shall be rooted up.
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Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both will fall into the pit.
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And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.
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But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?
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Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly,
and is cast out into the privy?
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But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those
things defile a man.
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For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false testimonies, blasphemies.
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These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile
a man.
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And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
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And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him:
Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by
the devil.
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Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send
her away, for she crieth after us:
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And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house
of Israel.
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But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.
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Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast
it to the dogs.
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But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the
table of their masters.
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Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee
as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.
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And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee. And going
up into a mountain, he sat there.
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And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the
lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed
them:
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So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind
see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
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And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes,
because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will
not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
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And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert,
as to fill so great a multitude?
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And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few
little fishes.
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And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.
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And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and gave
to his disciples, and the disciples to the people.
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And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of
what remained of the fragments.
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And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children and women.
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And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and came into the coasts
of Magedan.