✧Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, ✧2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.” ✧3He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? ✧4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ ✧5But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” ✧6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. ✧7You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, ✧8‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. ✧9And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’” ✧10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand. ✧11That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” ✧12Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” ✧13But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. ✧14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.” ✧15Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.” ✧16So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand? ✧17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body? ✧18But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. ✧19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. ✧20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.” ✧21Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. ✧22Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!” ✧23But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.” ✧24But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” ✧25But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.” ✧26But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” ✧27But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” ✧28Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour. ✧29Jesus departed from there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up on the mountain and sat there. ✧30Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, ✧31so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel. ✧32Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.” ✧33The disciples said to him, “Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?” ✧34Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.” ✧35He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; ✧36and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. ✧37They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over. ✧38Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. ✧39Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.