Jesus

He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized him

and began running around throughout that whole region and bringing sick people on their stretchers to any place where they heard he was.

Wherever he went, in towns, cities or country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were healed.

The P'rushim and some of the Torah-teachers who had come from Yerushalayim gathered together with Yeshua

and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n'tilat-yadayim.

The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"

Yeshua answered them, "Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites -- as it is written, `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 Yeshua called the people to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this!

When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.

He replied to them, "So you too are without understanding? Don't you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?

"It is what comes out of a person," he went on, "that makes him unclean.

Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.

The woman was a Greek, by birth a Syro-phoenician, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

She answered him, "That is true, sir; but even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers."

Then he said to her, "For such an answer you may go on home; the demon has left your daughter."

Then he left the district of Tzor and went through Tzidon to Lake Kinneret and on to the region of the Ten Towns.

They brought him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment and asked Yeshua to lay his hand on him.

Taking him off alone, away from the crowd, Yeshua put his fingers into the man's ears, spat, and touched his tongue;

then, looking up to heaven, he gave a deep groan and said to him, "Hippatach!" (that is, "Be opened!").

Yeshua ordered the people to tell no one; but the more he insisted, the more zealously they spread the news.

People were overcome with amazement. "Everything he does, he does well!" they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"