1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Yeshua from Jerusalem, saying,
2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread."
3 He answered them,
4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’
5 But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"
6 he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8 ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth,
9 And in vain do they worship me,
10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them,
11 That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
13 But he answered,
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
16 So Yeshua said,
17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man."
21 Yeshua went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!"
23 But he answered her not a word.
24 But he answered,
25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26 But he answered,
27 But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table."
28 Then Yeshua answered her,
29 Yeshua departed from there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain and sat there.
30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Yeshua summoned his disciples and said,
33 The disciples said to him, "Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
34 Yeshua said to them,
35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
37 They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
38 Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.
39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.