The Koine Bible

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying

Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

But he answered them, Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition?

For God said, Honor your father and your mother, and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother shall be put to death.

But you say, Whoever says to his father or to his mother, A gift by which you might be benefited from me,

He will not honor his father; and you have nullified the word of God because of your tradition.

Hypocrites, Isaiah rightly prophesied about you, saying:

This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

They honor me in vain, teaching commandments of humans.

And calling the crowd, he said to them, Listen and understand.

Not what enters the mouth defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth defiles the person.

Then the disciples approached him and said, Do you know that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were offended?

But he answered, Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be uprooted.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. But if a blind person guides a blind person, both will fall into a pit.

But Peter answered him, Say to us the meaning of this parable.

He said, Are you also without understanding?

Do you not understand that everything entering the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and these defile the person.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

These are the things that defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.

And Jesus, having gone out from there, withdrew into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.

And behold, a Canaanite woman from those regions came out and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely demon-possessed.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and asked him, saying, Send her away, because she is crying out behind us.

But he answered, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But she came and bowed down to him, saying, Lord, help me.

But he answered, It is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.

But she said, Yes, Lord, even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.

Then Jesus answered her, Woman, great is your faith; let it be done for you as you desire. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

And Jesus went from there and came by the sea of Galilee, and going up to the mountain he sat down there.

And many crowds came to him, having with them the deaf, the blind, the lame, the crippled, and many others, and they laid them down at his feet, and he healed them.

So that the crowd marveled when they saw the deaf speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

But Jesus, having called his disciples, said, I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me for three days already and they have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, so that they might faint on the way.

And the disciples say to him, Where will we get so many loaves in the wilderness to satisfy such a crowd?

And Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you have? They said, Seven, and a few little fish.

And having commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground

He took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

And they all ate and were satisfied, and they took up the leftover fragments, seven baskets full.

And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

And after dismissing the crowds, he entered the boat and came to the region of Magadan.