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They asked Jesus, </span><span class="v40_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.2" class="v40_15_2">2</span>“Why don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? They don't even wash their hands<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> before they eat.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.3" class="v40_15_3">3</span>Jesus answered:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_15_3">Why do you disobey God and follow your own teaching? </span><span class="v40_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.4" class="v40_15_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Didn't God command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents? </span><span class="v40_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.5" class="v40_15_5">5</span>But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they have has been offered to God.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v40_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.6" class="v40_15_6">6</span>Is this any way to show respect to your parents? You ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching. </span><span class="v40_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.7" class="v40_15_7">7</span>And you are nothing but show-offs! Isaiah the prophet was right when he wrote that God had said,</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.8" class="v40_15_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “All of you praise me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_15_8">with your words,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_15_8">but you never really</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_15_8">think about me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.9" class="v40_15_9">9</span>It is useless for you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_15_9">to worship me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_15_9">when you teach rules</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_15_9">made up by humans.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">What Really Makes People Unclean</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 7:14-23">Mark 7.14-23</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.10" class="v40_15_10">10</span>Jesus called the crowd together and said, “Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. </span><span class="v40_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.11" class="v40_15_11">11</span>The food you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.12" class="v40_15_12">12</span>Then his disciples came over to him and asked, “Do you know you insulted the Pharisees by what you said?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.13" class="v40_15_13">13</span>Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots. </span><span class="v40_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.14" class="v40_15_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.15" class="v40_15_15">15</span>Peter replied, “What did you mean when you talked about the things that make people unclean?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.16" class="v40_15_16">16</span>Jesus then said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_15_16">Don't any of you know by now what I am talking about? </span><span class="v40_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.17" class="v40_15_17">17</span>Don't you know that the food you put into your mouth goes into your stomach and then out of your body? </span><span class="v40_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.18" class="v40_15_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But the words that come out of your mouth come from your heart. And they are what make you unfit to worship God. </span><span class="v40_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.19" class="v40_15_19">19</span>Out of your heart come evil thoughts, murder, unfaithfulness in marriage, vulgar deeds, stealing, telling lies, and insulting others. </span><span class="v40_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.20" class="v40_15_20">20</span>These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.</span></p><h3 class="s1">A Woman's Faith</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 7:24-30">Mark 7.24-30</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.21" class="v40_15_21">21</span>Jesus left and went to the territory near the towns of Tyre and Sidon. </span><span class="v40_15_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.22" class="v40_15_22">22</span>Suddenly a Canaanite woman<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> from there came out shouting, “Lord and Son of David,<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> have pity on me! My daughter is full of demons.” </span><span class="v40_15_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.23" class="v40_15_23">23</span>Jesus did not say a word. But the woman kept following along and shouting, so his disciples came up and asked him to send her away.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.24" class="v40_15_24">24</span>Jesus said, “I was sent only to the people of Israel! They are like a flock of lost sheep.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.25" class="v40_15_25">25</span>The woman came closer. Then she knelt down and begged, “Please help me, Lord!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_26"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.26" class="v40_15_26">26</span>Jesus replied, “It isn't right to take food away from children and feed it to dogs.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_27"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.27" class="v40_15_27">27</span>“Lord, this is true,” the woman said, “but even puppies get the crumbs that fall from their owner's table.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_28"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.28" class="v40_15_28">28</span>Jesus answered, “Dear woman, you really do have a lot of faith, and you will be given what you want.” At that moment her daughter was healed.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jesus Heals Many People</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_29"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.29" class="v40_15_29">29</span>From there, Jesus went along Lake Galilee. Then he climbed a hill and sat down. </span><span class="v40_15_30"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.30" class="v40_15_30">30</span>Large crowds came and brought many people who were paralyzed or blind or lame or unable to talk. They placed them, and many others, in front of Jesus, and he healed them all. </span><span class="v40_15_31"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.31" class="v40_15_31">31</span>Everyone was amazed at what they saw and heard. People who had never spoken could now speak. The lame were healed, the paralyzed could walk, and the blind were able to see. Everyone was praising the God of Israel.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jesus Feeds Four Thousand</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 8:1-10">Mark 8.1-10</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_32"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.32" class="v40_15_32">32</span>Jesus called his disciples together and told them, “I feel sorry for these people. They have been with me for three days, and they don't have anything to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry. They might faint on their way home.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_33"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.33" class="v40_15_33">33</span>His disciples said, “This place is like a desert. Where can we find enough food to feed such a crowd?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_34"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.34" class="v40_15_34">34</span>Jesus asked them how much food they had. They replied, “Seven small loaves of bread<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.34!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and a few little fish.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_35"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.35" class="v40_15_35">35</span>After Jesus had told the people to sit down, </span><span class="v40_15_36"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.36" class="v40_15_36">36</span>he took the seven loaves of bread and the fish and gave thanks. He then broke them and handed them to his disciples, who passed them around to the crowds.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_37"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.37" class="v40_15_37">37</span>Everyone ate all they wanted, and the leftovers filled seven large baskets.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_38"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.38" class="v40_15_38">38</span>There were 4,000 men who ate, not counting the women and children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_15_39"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.15.39" class="v40_15_39">39</span>After Jesus had sent the crowds away, he got into a boat and sailed across the lake. He came to shore near the town of Magadan.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.15.39!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">wash their hands: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Jewish people had strict laws about washing their hands before eating, especially if they had been out in public.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">has been offered to God: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">According to Jewish custom, when people said something was offered to God, it belonged to him and could not be used for anyone else, not even for their own parents.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Canaanite woman: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This woman was not Jewish.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Son of David: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 9.27.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">feed it to dogs: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some Jewish people referred to Gentiles as dogs.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.34 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">small loaves of bread: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 14.17.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.39 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Magadan: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The location is unknown.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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