Jesus

He answered, "Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition?

`These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.

Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'"

Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand this!

The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?"

He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

Kefa said to him, "Explain the parable to us."

So he said, "Don't you under stand even now?

Yeshua left that place and went off to the region of Tzor and Tzidon.

A woman from Kena`an who was living there came to him, pleading, "Sir, have pity on me. Son of David! My daughter is cruelly held under the power of demons!"

But Yeshua did not say a word to her. Then his talmidim came to him and urged him, "Send her away, because she is following us and keeps pestering us with her crying."

He said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra'el."

But she came, fell at his feet and said, "Sir, help me!"

He answered, "It is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

She said, "That is true, sir, but even the dogs eat the leftovers that fall from their master's table."

Then Yeshua answered her, "Lady, you are a person of great trust. Let your desire be granted." And her daughter was healed at that very moment.

Yeshua left there and went along the shore of Lake Kinneret. He climbed a hill and sat down;

and large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said, "I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, because they might collapse on the way home."

The talmidim said to him, "Where will we find enough loaves of bread in this remote place to satisfy so big a crowd?"

Yeshua asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few fish."

After telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,

he took the seven loaves and the fish, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the people.

After sending the crowd away, he got in the boat and went off to the region of Magadan.

Then some P'rushim and Tz'dukim came to trap Yeshua by asking him to show them a miraculous sign from Heaven.