Matthew:11

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* Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem come to Jesus , saying , * Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders ? For they don 't wash their hands when they eat bread . * And he answered and said to them , Why do you (note :){+}(:note ) also transgress the commandment of God because of your {+} tradition ? * For God said , Honor your father and your mother : and , He who speaks evil of father or mother , let him die the death . * But you (note :){+}(:note ) say , whoever will say to his father or his mother , That with which you might have been profited by me is given [to God ]; * he will not honor his father . And you (note :){+}(:note ) have made void the word of God because of your {+} tradition . * You (note :){+}(:note ) hypocrites , Isaiah prophesied well of you {+}, saying , * This people honors me with their lips ; But their heart is far from me . * But in vain they worship me , Teaching [as their ] doctrines the precepts of men . * And he called to him the multitude , and said to them , Hear (note :){+}(:note ), and understand {+}: * There is nothing from outside the man , that going into him can defile him ; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man . * Then his disciples asked of him the parable . * And he said to them , Are you (note :){+}(:note ) so without understanding also ? * Don 't you (note :){+}(:note ) perceive , that whatever from outside goes into the man , [it ] can 't defile him ; because it does not go into his heart , but into his belly , and goes out into the latrine ? * That which proceeds out of the man , that defiles the man . * For from inside , out of the heart of men , evil thoughts proceed , fornications , thefts , murders , adulteries , greed , wickednesses , deceit , sexual immorality , an evil eye , railing , pride , foolishness : * all these evil things proceed from inside , and defile the man . * A good tree is not able to produce evil fruit , neither is a corrupt tree [able ] to produce good fruit : for the tree is known by its fruit . For men do not gather grapes of thorns , nor do they gather figs of thistles . * The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things : and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things . * And Jesus went out from there , and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon . * And look , a woman , whose little daughter had an unclean spirit , having heard of him , came and fell down at his feet . Now the woman was a Greek , a Syrophoenician by race . * And she implored him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter . * And he said to her , Let the children first be filled : for it is not meet to take the children 's bread and cast it to the dogs . * But she answered and says to him , Lord , even the dogs under the table eat of the children 's crumbs . * And he said to her , For this saying go your way ; the demon has gone out of your daughter . * And she went away to her house , and found the child laid on the bed , and the demon gone out . * And Jesus departed from there , and came near to the sea of Galilee ; and he went up into the mountain , and sat there . * And there came to him great multitudes , having with them the lame , blind , maimed , mute , and many others , and they cast them down at his feet ; and he healed them : * insomuch that the multitude wondered , when they saw the mute speaking , the maimed whole , and lame walking , and the blind seeing : and they glorified God . * And Jesus called to him his disciples , and said , I have compassion on the multitude , because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat : and I don 't want to send them away fasting , lest perhaps they faint on the way . * And the disciples say to him , From where should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude ? * And Jesus said to them , How many loaves do you (note :){+}(:note ) have ? And they said , Seven , and a few small fish . * And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground ; * and he took the seven loaves and the fish ; and he gave thanks and broke , and gave to the disciples , and the disciples to the multitudes . * And they all ate , and were filled : and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces , seven baskets full . * And those who ate were four thousand men , besides women and children . * And he sent away the multitudes , and entered into the boat , and came into the borders of Magadan . * And the Pharisees and Sadducees came , and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven . * But he answered and said to them , * An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign ; and there will no sign be given to it , but the sign of Jonah . And he left them , and departed . * And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread . * And Jesus said to them , Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees . * And they reasoned among themselves , saying , We took no bread . * And Jesus perceiving it said , O you (note :){+}(:note ) of little faith , why do you {+} reason among yourselves , because you {+} have no bread ? * Do you (note :){+}(:note ) not yet perceive , neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand , and how many baskets you {+} took up ? * Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand , and how many baskets you (note :){+}(:note ) took up ? * How is it that you (note :){+}(:note ) do not perceive that I did not speak to you {+} concerning bread ? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees .

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