1 Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,
2 "Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."
3 But he answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of what has been handed down to you?
4 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'He who abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'
5 But you say, 'Whoever tells his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is given to God,"
6 does not have to provide for his father.' So you have nullified what God has said, for the sake of what has been handed down to you.
7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said,
8 " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
9 But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
10 And he called the people to him and said to them,
11 "Listen to this, and grasp it! It is not what goes into a man's mouth that pollutes him; it is what comes out of his mouth that pollutes a man."
12 Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?"
13 But he answered, "Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be uprooted!
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"
16 He said, "Have even you no understanding yet?
17 Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?
18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man.
19 For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.
20 It is these things that pollute a man, but not eating with unwashed hands!"
21 And Jesus left that place and retired to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!"
23 But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."
26 He said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!"
27 But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!"
28 Then Jesus answered, "You have great faith! You shall have what you want." And her daughter was cured from that time.
29 Jesus left that place and went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the hillside and sat down there.
30 Then great crowds came to him bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. And they laid them down at his feet, and he cured them,
31 so that the people were astonished to see the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see. And they praised the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."
33 The disciples said to him, "Where can we get bread enough in this solitude to feed such a crowd?"
35 Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground,
36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks and he broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
37 And they all ate and satisfied their hunger. And the pieces that they left that were picked up filled seven baskets.
38 There were four thousand men who were fed, besides women and children.
39 And he dismissed the people and got into the boat and went to the district of Magadan.