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And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings--commands of men.'

And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand:

Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'

And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon,

and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, `Deal kindly with me, Sir--Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'

And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying--`Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

and he answering said, `I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, help me;'

and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'

And she said, `Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;'

then answering, Jesus said to her, `O woman, great is thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.

And Jesus having passed thence, came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, he was sitting there,

and there came to him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they did cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them,

And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.'

And his disciples say to him, `Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

And Jesus saith to them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven, and a few little fishes.'

And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground,

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,