1 T hen the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,

2 W hy do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

3 B ut he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

4 F or God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

5 B ut ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever by which from me thou wouldest be profited:

6 a nd he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

7 H ypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

8 T his people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

9 b ut in vain do they worship me, teaching teachings commandments of men.

10 A nd having called to the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:

11 N ot what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

12 T hen his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

13 B ut he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

14 L eave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.

15 A nd Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.

16 B ut he said, Are ye also still without intelligence?

17 D o ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?

18 b ut the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

19 F or out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

20 t hese are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

21 A nd Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;

22 a nd lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.

23 B ut he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.

24 B ut he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

25 B ut she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

26 B ut he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

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

28 T hen Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

29 A nd Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;

30 a nd great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:

31 s o that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

32 B ut Jesus, having called his disciples to, said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

33 A nd his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

34 A nd Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

35 A nd he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

36 a nd having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

37 A nd all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;

38 b ut they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

39 A nd, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan.