Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

But God Did Not Reject His People

11 Therefore I say, God did not reject^[a] His people, did He? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not reject His people whom He foreknew!

There Is Still a Remnant Chosen By God

Or do you not know what the Scripture says in-connection-with^[b] Elijah [in 1 Kings 19:14], how he appeals to God against Israel?—

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are without-regret^[a].

They Will Be Shown Mercy

³⁰ For just as you once^[b] disobeyed God, but now were shown-mercy in the disobedience of these Jews, ³¹ so also these Jews now disobeyed in the mercy belonging to you, in order that they also now may be shown-mercy. ³² For God confined all in disobedience in order that He may show-mercy to all.

¹⁰ And having summoned the crowd, He said to them, “Listen and understand. ¹¹ The thing entering into the mouth does not defile^[a] 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^[b]? 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^[c] 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^[d], murders, adulteries, sexual-immoralities, thefts, false-testimonies^[e], 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^[a] the lost^[b] 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^[c]”. 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.