2.Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!
3."And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
4.For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
5.But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'
6.he is not to 'honor his father' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7.You hypocrites! Isaia was right when he prophesied about you:
8." 'These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9.They worship me in vain;
their teachings are but rules taught by men.'
10.Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
11.what goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what make him 'unclean.' "
12.Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
13.He replid, "Every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
14.Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
15.peter said, "Explain the aprable to us."
16."Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
17."Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
18.But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'
19.For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultary, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20.These are what make a man 'unclean; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean,' "
21.leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22.A canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession."
23.Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us."
24.He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."
25.The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said.
26.He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
27."Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
28.Then Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted."
And her daughter is healed from that very hour.
29.Jesus left there and went along the sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down.
30.Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he heald them.
31.The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.