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fourth watch of the

night Jesus went

unto them, walking on the sea.

26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is ka spirit; and they to cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.

29 And he said, Come. And when

Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on

the water, to go to Jesus.

30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said

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some spirit or phantastic shape, that seems there walk bodily; and they—

1give me thy commission, and then I know I safely

may come

unto him, O thou of m

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little faith, where

why did thy mind stand divided, float between

fore didst thou faith and diffidence? why didst thou stagger? why didst thou distrust my power, when I bid thee come

doubt?

32 And when "they to me?

were come into the n Christ and Peter were come

ship, the wind ceased.

33 Then they that

the rest of his disciples came every one of them were in the ship and adored him, and acknowledged his omnipotence.

came and worship

ped him, saying, Of

a truth thou art the Son of God.

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And when they were gone over, they came into the land of P[e] Genne

saret.

35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of

P Cinnereth, Deut. iii.

9 knew him, as having been there before, Luke v. 1.

him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;

36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

THEN came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, whichwere of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they [a]wash not their hands "when they eat bread.

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CHAP. XV.

before meat, as the Jews think themselves obliged do.

3 But he answered b the observance and practice of those things which and said unto them, are not taught by God, but by yourselves delivered Why do ye also to your disciples? Sure this must be acknowledged transgress the commandment of God by you a great fault, who expect to have all your own by your tradition? ordinances observed so punctually.

4 For God com- useth them ill in words or deeds, that lightly manded, saying, Honour thy father regards them, that refuseth to do aught for them, ver. 9, let

and mother: and,

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He that [b] curseth

5, 6. But contrary to this, your tradition is, that if a father or mother, let man can answer his parents, when they need any him die the death. relief, and tell them, saying, I have bound myself by 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to an oath that I will not do any thing to the relief of his father or his my father and my mother; or, as some will undermother, It is [c] a stand it, O father, that by which thou shouldest be gift, by whatsoever relieved by me is a gift already devoted to God, and thou mightest be cannot without impiety be otherwise employed, profited by me; 6 And honour not and by this piety to God I may be as profitable and his father or his helpful to thee, for God will repay it upon me and mother, he shall be thee in our needs; he is under obligation not to give free. Thus have ye it his father, or (as some would have it in pursuance of the latter interpretation), he hath said enough to effect by your tra- his parents, or, he shall be free from that obligation to relieve them. (See note [d] on 1 Peter iii.) Here 7 Ye hypocrites, is a clear example to demonstrate, that you that stand well did Esaias pro- so for the observing of your traditions do make no phesy of you, saying, 8 This people draw scruple to evacuate the obligation of God's cometh nigh unto me mands.

made the command

ment of God of none

dition.

it is an interdict, or he is obliged.

with their mouth,

9. The service which they perform to me is little and honoureth me worth, and likely to receive a slender reward, when with their lips; but their heart is far from my commands are not heeded by them, but their own constitutions set up instead of them: see Mark vii.

me.

9 But in vain they 7. and note [a] on Heb. viii.

do worship me, teach- 10. And leaving the Pharisees with some dislike, ing for doctrines the he calls the multitude, (who while he talked to the * commandments of Pharisees stood at some distance,) and speaks more 10 ¶ And he called hopefully of, and cheerfully to them, saying, To this the multitude, and matter of washing before meat, so insisted on by the said unto them, Hear, Pharisees, do you consider what I now say.

men.

and understand:

II Not that which 11. Not that which is eaten, but that which is goeth into the mouth spoken polluteth any man.

galled, and discouraged from receiving thy doc

defileth a man; but e that which cometh trine. out of the mouth,

this defileth a man.

13. To this he gave no other reply but this: All 12 Then came his such as they which come with such prejudices as the disciples, and said Pharisees do, that prefer their own injunctions before unto him, Knowest the commands of God, ver. 9, it is to be expected, thou that the Phari- that the telling them the truth will alien them. All sees were offended, after they heard this seed but that which falls on the good ground, and is saying? there radicated in humility and piety, such as my 13 But he answer- Father owns the planting of, shall certainly come to ed and said, Every naught; and consequently so must all faith in these [d] plant, which my heavenly Father hath opinionative men; and therefore it is not strange if not planted, shall be they be galled, and depart from me, upon the noting rooted up. and reproving of their errors.

of the blind. And

him, 'Declare unto

us this parable.

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14 Let them alone: 14. If this have galled and discouraged and drove they be blind leaders them from me, let them go; they are stupidly and if the blind lead the perversely ignorant themselves, and take great pleablind, both shall fall sure to be accounted doctors and rabbis, instructors into the ditch. of the ignorant; and what can be the effect of this, 15 Then answered but that the leaders, and they that are led by them, Peter and said unto shall together ingulf themselves in perdition? f Tell us the meaning of this parable. 16 And Jesus said, g every thing that we eat first comes from without, Are ye also yet and so is no part of us, is not imputable to us in respect of the principle, and then doth but pass or 17 Do not ye yet travel through us, is soon dispatched, and thrown out understand, that of the body again, and so be it never so gross, never whatsoever entereth so unclean, it cannot pollute the eater, at least not in at the mouth go- comparably so much as that which hath the original eth into the belly, and is cast out into from ourselves, and hath some space of permanency the draught? there.

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without understand

ing?

18 But those things

18. But unclean, unsavoury speeches, it is clear that they proceed from the heart, and those that are of the mouth come there, that is, in the heart, that spring from that

which proceed out

* injunctions, ἐντάλματα.

3 plantation, purela. 4 still all this while, aκμnv.

forth from the heart; fountain, which we are most concerned to keep pure, and they defile the and which is most truly and properly ours, and im19 For out of the putable to us, those are the sort of things that may heart proceed[e] evil most reasonably be deemed to defile any man.

man.

thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphe

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things which defile a

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man: but to eat h but so merely corporeal and external a thing as with unwashen hands omitting to wash before meat cannot be thought to defile any man.

defileth not a man.

21 Then Jesus went thence, and de

parted into the coasts

of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, 'a

ian heathen woman born in Phenice, hearing of [f] womanof Canaan his miracles, and that he was now come thither, came

came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought

to him on purpose, out of—

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him, saying, [g]Send Do that for her that she desires, that she may be

her away; for she

crieth after us.

24 But he answer

ed and said, 'I am

quiet.

My mission is purposely to the Jews, to reduce not sent but unto the them to repentance, and so to shew my miracles lost sheep of the

house of Israel. among them.

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25 Then came she in worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

26 But he answered and said, It is not

meet to take the

m fell down and besought him, saying—

n to work these miracles and cures on an heathen children's bread, and which were destined to God's people, the Jews. to cast it to dogs.

27 And she said,

70 [h] Truth, Lord: I beseech thee, Lord; for although it be as thou yet the dogs eat of sayest, yet it is ordinary that the dogs lick up the rethe crumbs which fall mainders and scatterings of the table, and so may the from their masters' Gentiles be admitted to partake of thy mercies to the

table.

Jews.

wicked machinations, or designs. beseech thee.

6 railings, or slanders, Bλaonμlai.

7 Yea, or, I

28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very Phour.

29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were

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lame, blind, dumb,

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to the coast by the side of the sea of Galilee

I deaf, and, by that, dumb, men that had lost their

maimed, and many limbs, and many more sick of other diseases, and cast―

others, and cast them

down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind

to see: and they

and they all, whether Jews or Gentiles, acknow

glorified the God of ledged this to be a wonderful work of mercy wrought

Israel.

32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. 33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said,

by the God of Israel, and such as no other God was able to do.

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