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Jesus Condemns The Pharisees For Obeying Their Traditions Instead of God’s Commands

15 Then Pharisees and scribes come to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, ² “For what reason are Your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For they are not washing^[a] their hands when they eat bread”. ³ But the One, having responded, said to them, “For what reason indeed are you transgressing the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God said [in Ex 20:12]: ‘Be honoring your father and your mother’, and [in Ex 21:17] ‘Let the one speaking-evil-of father or mother come-to-an-end^[b] by a death’. ⁵ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or his mother: “Whatever you might be benefitted from me is a gift^[c] [to God]” ⁶ shall by-no-means honor^[d] his father’. And you nullified^[e] the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly concerning you, saying [in Isa 29:13]: ⁸ ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from Me. ⁹ But they are worshiping Me in-vain^[f]— teaching as teachings the commandments of humans’”. ¹⁰ And having summoned the crowd, He said to them, “Listen and understand. ¹¹ The thing entering into the mouth does not defile^[g] the person. But the thing proceeding out of the mouth— this defiles the person”.

The Pharisees Focus On What Goes Into The Body Versus What Comes From The Heart

¹² Then having come to Him, the disciples say to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees, having heard Your statement, took-offense^[h]? ¹³ But the One, having responded, said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of blind ones. And if a blind one guides a blind one, both will fall into a pit”. ¹⁵ And having responded, Peter said to Him, “Explain this parable to us”. ¹⁶ And the One said, “Are you^[i] even yet also without-understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not perceive that everything proceeding into the mouth advances into the stomach and is expelled into a latrine? ¹⁸ But the things proceeding out of the mouth come out of the heart. And those things defile the person. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts^[j], murders, adulteries, sexual-immoralities, thefts, false-testimonies^[k], blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things defiling the person. But the eating with unwashed hands does not defile the person”.

A Gentile Woman Begs For Crumbs From The Master’s Table

²¹ And having gone out from there, Jesus withdrew into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And behold— a Canaanite woman having come out from those districts was crying out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Master, Son of David. My daughter is badly demon-possessed”. ²³ But the One did not respond a word to her. And having come to Him, His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Send her away, because she is crying-out after us”. ²⁴ But the One, having responded, said, “I was not sent-forth except for^[l] the lost^[m] sheep of the house of Israel”. ²⁵ But the one, having come, was prostrating-herself before Him, saying, “Master, help me”. ²⁶ And the One, having responded, said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little-dogs^[n]”. ²⁷ But the one said, “Yes, Master. For indeed the little-dogs eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their masters!” ²⁸ Then, having responded, Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you wish”. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Jesus Again Creates Bread And Fish For a Group of 4000 Men

²⁹ And having passed on from there, Jesus went beside the Sea of Galilee. And having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there. ³⁰ And large crowds came to Him, having with them lame ones, blind ones, crippled ones, mute ones, and many others. And they threw^[o] them at His feet. And He cured them, ³¹ so that the crowd marveled— seeing mute ones speaking, crippled ones healthy, and lame ones walking, and blind ones seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. ³² And Jesus, having summoned His disciples, said, “I feel-deep-feelings [of compassion] toward the crowd, because it is already three days they are remaining-with Me and they do not have anything they may eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, so that they may not perhaps become-exhausted^[p] on the way”. ³³ And the disciples say to Him, “From where are there so many loaves for us in a desolate place so as to fill-to-satisfaction so large a crowd?” ³⁴ And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And the ones said, “Seven, and a few small-fish”. ³⁵ And having ordered the crowd to fall-back on the ground [to eat], ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fish. And having given-thanks, He broke them and was giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ³⁷ And they all ate and were filled-to-satisfaction. And they picked up the amount of the fragments being left-over— seven full large-baskets. ³⁸ And the ones eating were four-thousand men, apart from women and children.

The Pharisees Ask For a Sign From Heaven. No Sign Will Be Given Except Jonah’s

³⁹ And having sent away the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the districts of Magadan.

Pharisees Object To Eating With Unwashed Hands. Jesus Condemns Their Traditions

7 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes are gathered-together with Him, having come from Jerusalem. ² And having seen some of His disciples, that they are eating their bread with defiled^[a] hands, that is, unwashed^[b]— ³ for the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with a fist^[c], holding-on-to the tradition of the elders. ⁴ And they do not eat [when they return]^[d] from the marketplace unless they cleanse^[e] [themselves]. And there are many other traditions which they received to hold-on-to— the cleansing of cups and pitchers and copper-pots and couches^[f]. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes ask Him, “For what reason are Your disciples not walking according to the tradition of the elders, but are eating their bread with defiled hands?” ⁶ And the One said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written [in Isa 29:13], that ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from Me. ⁷ But they are worshiping Me in-vain^[g], teaching as teachings^[h] the commandments of humans’. ⁸ Having neglected the commandment of God, you are holding on to the tradition of humans!” ⁹ And He was saying to them, “You are nicely^[i] setting-aside^[j] the commandment of God in order that you may establish^[k] your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said [in Ex 20:12], ‘Be honoring your father and your mother’, and [in Ex 21:17], ‘Let the one speaking-evil-of father or mother come-to-an-end^[l] by a death’. ¹¹ But you say if a person says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you might be benefitted from me is Corban (which means “Gift”)’, ¹² you no longer permit him to do anything^[m] for his father or mother— ¹³ nullifying^[n] the word of God by your tradition which you handed-down. And you are doing many similar such things”. ¹⁴ And having summoned the crowd again, He was saying to them, “Everyone listen-to Me and understand— ¹⁵ there is nothing outside of the person proceeding into him which is able to defile him. But the things proceeding out of the person are the things defiling the person. ^16 [o]

What Goes Into The Body Does Not Defile, But What Comes Out of The Heart

¹⁷ And when He entered into a house away-from the crowd, His disciples were questioning Him as to the parable. ¹⁸ And He says to them, “So are even you without-understanding? Do you not perceive that everything outside proceeding into the person is not able to defile^[p] him ¹⁹ because it does not proceed into his heart, but into his stomach, and it proceeds out into the latrine?” (He was making all foods clean^[q].) ²⁰ And He was saying that “The thing proceeding out of the person— that defiles the person. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of people, proceed the evil thoughts, sexual-immoralities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, greeds, evils, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye^[r], blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things proceed-out from within, and defile the person”.

A Gentile Woman Begs For Crumbs From The Master’s Table

²⁴ And having arisen, He went from there to the districts of Tyre. And having entered into a house, He was wanting^[s] no one to know^[t] it. And-yet He was not able to escape-notice. ²⁵ But immediately, a woman having heard about Him— of whom her little daughter was having an unclean spirit— having come, fell at His feet. ²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek^[u], a Syro-Phoenician^[v] by nationality. And she was asking Him that He cast out the demon from her daughter. ²⁷ And He was saying to her, “First allow the children to be filled-to-satisfaction. For it is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little-dogs^[w]”. ²⁸ But the one responded and says to Him, “Master, even the little dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children!” ²⁹ And He said to her, “Because of this statement, go— the demon has gone out of your daughter”. ³⁰ And having gone to her house, she found the child having been put^[x] on the bed, and the demon having gone out.

Jesus Heals a Deaf-Mute

³¹ And again having gone out of the districts of Tyre, He went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the midst of the districts of Decapolis. ³² And they bring to Him a deaf and speech-impaired one, and are begging Him that He lay His hand on him. ³³ And having taken him away from the crowd privately, He put His fingers into his^[y] ears. And having spit^[z], He touched his^[aa] tongue. ³⁴ And having looked up to heaven, He sighed. And He says to him “Ephphatha”, which means “Be opened”. ³⁵ And immediately his ears were opened and the binding^[ab] of his tongue was released and he was speaking correctly. ³⁶ And He gave-orders to them that they should be telling no one. But as much as He was giving orders to them, they even more abundantly were proclaiming it. ³⁷ And they were being super-abundantly astounded, saying “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak”.