5 they said to Jesus, “Your followers are not keeping the rules that our old leaders gave us a long time ago. They did not wash their hands the right way before they started to eat their food.” The Jewish leaders growled at Jesus|src="tlc-029 unclean hands.tif" size="col" copy="Global Recordings Network ( Australia)" ref="7:5"
6 Jesus said to them, “Isaiah lived a long time ago and told people God's messages. He wrote about people that think 2 ways, just like you. The words he wrote about you are in God's book.
7 They do ceremonies to show me respect,
8 You mob are just like that. You have turned your back on God's law, and you love keeping the rules that you have made up.”
9 Then he said, “And you have worked out ways to get around God's laws and follow the rules your leaders made up.
10 God told Moses that he wanted everyone to look after their old people.
11 But you teach people that they can say to their parents, ‘I know that you need help and I would like to give you something, but I promised to give it to God. I am sorry, I cannot help you.’
12 You reckon that if a person says that to their father or mother, they don't have to help them.
13 When they do this to their old people, they are rubbishing God and his law. And you do wrong things like this all the time. You think that your own rules are better than God's laws.”
14 Then Jesus called out to all the people and said,
17 Then Jesus left the people and went into a house. His followers went with him, and they asked him what he was talking about.
20 Then Jesus said, “People show that they are not right with God by the bad things they say and do.
23 Yes, when people do these bad things, it shows that they are thinking the wrong way and they are not right with God.”
24 Jesus took his followers north to a place called Tyre that was next to the sea. They stayed inside a house so that no-one would know they were there, but people soon found them.
27 Jesus said to her, “Listen to me. You do not take your children's food and give it to your dogs, do you? You let your children eat as much as they want to and then you give the rest to the dogs.” The woman asked Jesus to help her daughter|src="lll6-21Syro phoenecian woman begs crumbs dog under table.tif" size="col" copy="GRN" ref="7:27"
28 The woman said, “Yes, Teacher, you are right about that, but while those children are eating, they drop bits of food on the ground and the dogs eat it.”
29 Jesus said, “That is a good answer. You can go home now, that bad spirit has gone out of your daughter.”
30 When the woman got home, she found her daughter lying quietly on a bed. What Jesus said was true, the bad spirit was gone.
31 Jesus left Tyre and went to a town called Sidon. Then he went around the top of Lake Galilee and down to a country that everyone called Ten Towns.
32 There was a man in that country that could not hear anything, and he could not talk properly. His friends were worried about him and so they took him to Jesus. They asked Jesus to put his hand on their friend, and make him better.
33 Jesus took the man away from all the other people and put his fingers in the man's ears. He spat and touched the man's tongue.
34 Then Jesus looked up into the sky and breathed out as he prayed for the man. And he said in their language, “Open up!”
35 And straight away, the man could hear, and he could talk properly.
36 Jesus went back to the crowd and said to them, “Do not tell anyone what I did for your friend.” But they would not listen, and everywhere they went they said to people, “Jesus made our friend better!”
37 Everyone was really amazed and they said to each other, “Jesus does everything properly. He makes people who cannot listen hear again. And people that cannot talk, he makes them better too.”