1Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3He answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by reason of your tradition? 4For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who curses father or mother, let him die the death. 5But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God; 6and he does not honor his father or mother. Thus you have voided the commandment of God by your tradition. 7Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. 9And in vain they revere Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 10And when He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, Hear and understand: 11Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man. 12Then His disciples came and said to Him, Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying? 13But He answered and said, Every plant which My Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch. 15Then Peter answered and said to Him, Explain this parable to us. 16So Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding? 17Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated into the sewer? 18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual perversions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man. 21Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold, a woman of Canaan came from those borders and cried out to Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously demon-possessed. 23But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, Send her away, for she cries out after us. 24But He answered and said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25Then she came and did homage to Him, saying, Lord, help me! 26But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs. 27But she said, Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table. 28Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire. And her daughter was healed from that very hour. 29And Jesus departed from there, came beside the Sea of Galilee, and went up into the mountain and sat down there. 30And great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they cast them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them. 31So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. 32Then Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, that they not faint on the way. 33And His disciples said to Him, Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to feed such a great multitude? 34Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you have? And they said, Seven, and a few little fish. 35So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. 36And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitude. 37So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left. 38And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. 39And He sent away the multitude, got into the boat, and came to the borders of Magdala.