1 Toe kom daar skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs van Jerusalem na Jesus en sê:
2 Waarom oortree u dissipels die oorlewering van die ou mense? Want hulle was nie hul hande as hulle brood eet nie.
3 Maar Hy antwoord en sê vir hulle: Waarom oortree julle ook die gebod van God ter wille van julle oorlewering?
4 Want God het bevel gegee en gesê: Eer jou vader en moeder; en: Hy wat vader of moeder vloek, moet sekerlik sterwe.
5 Maar julle sê: Elkeen wat aan vader of moeder sê: enige voordeel wat u van my sou kan geniet, is 'n offergawe -- die hoef sy vader of sy moeder glad nie te eer nie.
6 So het julle dan die gebod van God kragteloos gemaak ter wille van julle oorlewering.
7 Geveinsdes, tereg het Jesaja oor julle geprofeteer toe hy gesê het:
8 Hierdie volk nader My met hulle mond en eer My met die lippe, maar hulle hart is ver van My af.
9 Maar tevergeefs vereer hulle My deur leringe te leer wat gebooie van mense is.
10 En Hy het die skare na Hom geroep en vir hulle gesê: Luister en verstaan!
11 Nie wat in die mond ingaan, maak die mens onrein nie; maar wat uit die mond uitgaan, dit maak die mens onrein.
12 Daarop kom sy dissipels nader en sê vir Hom: Weet U dat die Fariseërs, toe hulle die woord hoor, aanstoot geneem het?
13 Maar Hy antwoord en sê: Elke plant wat my hemelse Vader nie geplant het nie, sal ontwortel word.
14 Laat hulle staan; hulle is blinde leiers van blindes. En as 'n blinde 'n ander blinde lei, sal altwee in die sloot val.
15 En Petrus antwoord en sê vir Hom: Verklaar vir ons hierdie gelykenis.
16 Maar Jesus sê: Is julle dan ook nog sonder verstand?
17 Begryp julle nog nie dat alles wat in die mond ingaan, in die maag kom en in die heimlikheid uitgewerp word nie?
18 Maar die dinge wat uit die mond uitgaan, kom uit die hart, en dit is die wat die mens onrein maak.
19 Want uit die hart kom daar slegte gedagtes, moord, egbreuk, hoerery, diewery, valse getuienis, lastertaal.
20 Dit is hierdie dinge wat die mens onrein maak; maar om met ongewaste hande te eet, maak die mens nie onrein nie.
21 En Jesus het daarvandaan weggegaan en na die streke van Tirus en Sidon vertrek.
22 En 'n Kanan,se vrou het van daardie gebied gekom en na Hom geroep en gesê: Wees my barmhartig, Here, Seun van Dawid! My dogter is erg van die duiwel besete.
23 Maar Hy het haar nie 'n woord geantwoord nie. Toe kom sy dissipels nader en vra Hom en sê: Stuur haar weg, want sy roep agter ons aan.
24 Maar Hy antwoord en sê: Ek is net gestuur na die verlore skape van die huis van Israel.
25 Daarop kom sy en val voor Hom neer en sê: Here, help my!
26 Maar Hy antwoord en sê: Dit is nie mooi om die brood van die kinders te neem en dit vir die hondjies te gooi nie.
27 En sy sê: Ja, Here, maar die hondjies eet darem van die krummels wat van die tafel van hulle base afval.
28 Toe antwoord Jesus en sê vir haar: o Vrou, groot is jou geloof; laat dit vir jou wees soos jy wil hê. En haar dogter het gesond geword van daardie uur af.
29 Toe gaan Jesus daarvandaan weg en kom by die see van Galil,a; en Hy het op die berg geklim en daar gaan sit.
30 En ondertussen kom daar groot menigtes na Hom met kreupeles, blindes, stommes, gebreklikes en baie ander by hulle, en hulle het die by die voete van Jesus neergesit, en Hy het hulle gesond gemaak,
31 sodat die skare verbaas was om te sien dat stommes praat, gebreklikes gesond word, kreupeles loop en blindes sien; en hulle het die God van Israel verheerlik.
32 Toe het Jesus sy dissipels na Hom geroep en gesê: Ek voel innig jammer vir die skare, omdat hulle al drie dae by My bly en niks het om te eet nie; en Ek wil hulle nie graag honger wegstuur nie, sodat hulle nie miskien op die pad beswyk nie.
33 En sy dissipels sê vir Hom: Waar sal ons in die woestyn soveel brode vandaan kry om so 'n groot skare te versadig?
34 Toe sê Jesus vir hulle: Hoeveel brode het julle? En hulle antwoord: Sewe, en 'n paar vissies.
35 En Hy het bevel gegee aan die skare om op die grond te gaan sit.
36 Toe neem Hy die sewe brode en die visse, en nadat Hy gedank het, breek Hy dit en gee dit aan sy dissipels, en die dissipels aan die skare.
37 En hulle het almal geëet en versadig geword; en hulle het die oorskot van die brokstukke opgetel, sewe mandjies vol.
38 En die wat geëet het, was vier duisend manne buiten die vroue en kinders.
39 En nadat Hy die skare weggestuur het, het Hy in die skuit gegaan en in die gebied van M gdala gekom.
1 Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
2 Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.
5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;
6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
10 And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
11 Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
12 Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?
13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.
14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
15 Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
18 But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
21 And Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
23 But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.
24 But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.
25 But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.
26 And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
27 But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
29 And Jesus went from there and came to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and took his seat there.
30 And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:
31 So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.
32 And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.
33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?
34 And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.
35 Then he gave an order to the people to be seated on the earth,
36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
37 And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.
38 And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.
39 And when he had sent the people away, he got into the boat, and came into the country of Magadan.