Then Pharisees and scribes from Urishlim came near to Y'shua and said:

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and do not wash their hands when they eat bread?

Y'shua answered and said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of Elohim on account of your tradition?

For Elohim said: Honor your father and your mother; and whoever reviles his father or his mother will surely die.

But you say: Anyone who says to a father or to a mother, My offering is whatever you would gain from me, then he need not honor his father or his mother.

And thus you make void the word of Elohim for the sake of your tradition.

You hypocrites, well did Eshaya prophesy about you, and say:

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

And in vain they revere me, while they teach teachings that are the commandments of the sons of men.

And he called the crowd and said to them, Hear and understand.

It is not what enters the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out from the mouth—that defiles a man.

Then his disciples came near and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees who heard this word were offended?

But he answered and said to them: Every plant that my Father who is in heaven has not planted will be uprooted.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a pit.

And Shimon Keefa answered and said to him: My Master, explain this parable to us.

But he said to them: Are you also still without understanding even until now?

Do you not know that whatever enters the mouth goes into the belly, and from there is cast out in the latrine?

But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and that is what defiles a person.

For from the heart come out evil thoughts, adultery, murder, whoredom, theft, false testimony, reviling.

These are what defile a person. But if a person eats while his hands are not washed, he is not defiled.

And Y'shua went out from there and came to the borders of Tsur and Tsidon.

And a Canaanite woman from those borders came out, crying out and saying, Have compassion on me, my Master, son of Dawid; my daughter is grievously tormented by a demon.

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came near, asked him, and said, Send her away, for she is crying after us.

But he answered and said to them, I was not sent except to the sheep that have strayed from the house of Yisrael.

But she came and bowed to him and said, “My Master, help me.”

He said to her, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

But she said, “Yes, my Master; even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table and live.”

Then Y'shua said to her, “O woman, great is your faith; let it be for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

And Y'shua left from there and came beside the sea of Galila, and he went up the mountain and sat there.

And great crowds came to him, and with them were the lame and the blind and the mute and the maimed and many others, and they laid them at the feet of Y'shua, and he healed them.

so that those crowds were amazed who saw the mute speaking, and the maimed being healed, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they praised the Elohim of Yisrael.

Then Y'shua called his disciples and said to them: I have compassion on this crowd, for look, three days they have stayed with me and they have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the way.

His disciples say to him: From where for us in the wilderness bread to satisfy all this crowd?

Y'shua said to them: How many loaves do you have? They say to him: Seven, and a few small fish.

And he commanded the crowd to recline on the ground.

And he took these seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks and broke and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the crowd.

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

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

And when he sent the crowds away, he went up into the boat and came to the borders of Magdu.