The King meets further opposition from leaders
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📚Then scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 📚✭“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread”.3 📚✭But he answered and said to them, “And why do you break the commandment of God by following your tradition? 4 📚For God commanded, saying, ‘Honour your father and mother’, and, ‘He who curses father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 📚✭But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or his mother, “Whatever of mine might have been useful to you is an offering to God”, 6 📚and does not honour his father or his mother, it is all right.’ In this way, by your tradition, you have made the commandment of God to be no longer in effect. 7 📚You hypocrites!✭ Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,
8 📚✭This people draw near me
with their mouth,
and honour me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
9 📚But they worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men”.
10 📚And he called the crowd and said to them, “Listen and understand. 11 📚✭What defiles a man is not what goes into the mouth. But what comes out of the mouth, this is what defiles a man”.
12 📚Then his disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?”
13 📚✭But he answered and said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted, 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 the ditch”.
15 📚Then answered Peter and said to him, “Explain this parable to us”.
The King teaches what makes people unclean
16 📚And Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 📚Do you still not understand that whatever goes in the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 📚But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart. And they defile the man. 19 📚✭For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 📚These are the things which defile a man. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man”.
The King heals a Canaanite woman's daughter
21 📚Then Jesus left there and went into the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 📚✭And, suddenly, out came a Canaanite woman from that region and cried out to him, saying, “O Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me. My daughter is terribly demon-possessed”.
23 📚✭But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us”.
24 📚But he answered and said, “I was not sent to anyone except the lost sheep of the house of Israel”.
25 📚Then she came and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, help me”.
26 📚But he answered and said, “It is not right to take the children's✭ bread, and throw it to the dogs”.
27 📚✭And she said, “True, Lord! Yet the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table”.
28 📚✭Then Jesus answered and said to her, “Woman, your faith is great! It will be to you just as you wish”. And from that hour her daughter was healed.
The King feeds four thousand
29 📚And Jesus left there, came near the lake of Galilee, and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 📚And great crowds came to him. With them were the lame, blind, mute, crippled, and many others. And they put them down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them, 31 📚✭so that the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
32 📚✭Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me now for three days, and have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away without eating, for they may faint on the way”.
33 📚✭And his disciples said to him, “Where would we get enough bread in this wilderness to satisfy such a large crowd?”
34 📚And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish”.
35 📚And he commanded the crowd to sit on the ground. 36 📚And he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowd. 37 📚✭And they all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 38 ✭And those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children. 39 📚And he sent the crowd away, and got into the boat, and came to the region of Magdala.