Matthew:15

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* * Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders ? for they (note :)Which they received handed down from their ancestors , or their elders allowed , who were the governors of the Church .(:note ) wash not their hands when they eat bread . * * For God commanded , saying , (note :)By honour is meant every duty which children owe to their parents .(:note ) Honour thy father and mother : and , He that curseth father or mother , let him die the death . * But ye say , (note :)The meaning is this : whatever I bestow upon the temple , is to your profit , for it is as good as if I gave it to you , for (as the Pharisees of our time say ) it will be meritorious for you : for under this form of religion , they gathered all to themselves , as though he that had given anything to the temple , had done the duty of a child .(:note ) Whosoever shall say to [his ] father or [his ] mother , [It is ] a gift , by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ; * And honour not his father or his mother , [he shall be free ]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none (note :)As much as you could , you destroyed the power and authority of the commandment : for otherwise the commandments of God stand fast in the Church of God , in spite of the world and Satan .(:note ) effect by your tradition . * * This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth , and honoureth me with the lips , but their heart is farre off from me . * But in vaine they worship me , teaching for doctrines , mens precepts . * * That which goeth into the mouth , defileth not the man , but that which commeth out of the mouth , that defileth the man . * Then came his disciples , and saide vnto him , Perceiuest thou not , that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying ? * But hee answered and saide , Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted , shalbe rooted vp . * Let them alone , they be the blinde leaders of the blinde : and if the blinde leade ye blinde , both shall fall into the ditche . * Then answered Peter , and said to him , Declare vnto vs this parable . * Then said Iesus , Are ye yet without vnderstanding ? * Perceiue ye not yet , that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth , goeth into the bellie , and is cast out into the draught ? * But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth , come from the heart , and they defile the man . * For out of the heart come euil thoughts , murders , adulteries , fornications , thefts , false testimonies , slaunders . * These are the things , which defile the man : but to eat with vnwashen hands , defileth not ye man . * Then Jesus went thence , and departed into the (note :)Coasts which were next to Tyre and Sidon , that is in that region where Palestine faces toward Venice , and the sea of Syria .(:note ) coasts of Tyre and Sidon . * And , behold , a woman of (note :)Of the people of the Canaanites , who dwelt in Phoenicia .(:note ) Canaan came out of the same coasts , and cried unto him , saying , Have mercy on me , O Lord , [thou ] Son of David ; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil . * * But he answered and said , I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the (note :)Of the people of Israel , who were divided into tribes , but all those tribes came from one family .(:note ) house of Israel . * Yet she came , and worshipped him , saying , Lord , helpe me . * And he answered , and said , It is not good to take the childrens bread , and to cast it to whelps . * But she said , Trueth , Lord : yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes , which fall from their masters table . * Then Iesus answered , and saide vnto her , O woman , great is thy faith : be it to thee , as thou desirest ; her daughter was made whole at that houre . * * And great multitudes came unto him , having with them [those that were ] lame , blind , dumb , (note :)Whose members were weakened with paralysis , or by nature , for after it is said that he healed them . Now Christ preferred to heal in this way , that such members as were weak , he restored to health , and yet he could easily , if he had wanted , have given them hands and feet and other members which they lacked .(:note ) maimed , and many others , and cast them down at Jesus ' feet ; and he healed them : * In so much that the multitude wondered , to see the dumme speake , the maimed whole , the halt to goe , and the blinde to see : and they glorified the God of Israel . * * And his disciples saide vnto him , Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes , as should suffice so great a multitude ! * And Iesus said vnto them , How many loaues haue ye ? And they said , Seuen , &amp ; a few litle fishes . * And he commanded the multitude to (note :)Literally , «to lie down backwards », as rowers do in rowing , when they draw their oars to themselves .(:note ) sit down on the ground . * And tooke the seuen loaues , and the fishes , and gaue thankes , and brake them , and gaue to his disciples , and the disciples to the multitude . * And they did all eat , and were filled : and they took up of the broken [meat ] that was left seven (note :)A kind of container made with twigs .(:note ) baskets full . * And they that had eaten , were foure thousand men , beside women , and litle children . * Then Iesus sent away the multitude , and tooke ship , and came into the partes of Magdala .

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