10 For Moses said:

Honour thy father and thy mother, and

He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.

11 But you say:

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If a man says to his father or his mother, 'What I might have used to aid thee is Korban' (that is to say, 'given to God'),

You allow him no longer to do anything for his father or his mother.

You cancel God's word by your tradition which you have handed on. 14 And you do many a thing like that." Then calling the crowd to him again he said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

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Nothing can make a man unclean by entering him from outside; Nay, what makes a man unclean is that which issues from a man." 17 And when he went away from the crowd into the house, his disciples 18 plied him with questions about the parable. And he says to them, "So you are ignorant also? Do you not understand that whatever is on the 19 outside and enters a man cannot make him unclean? It enters his belly, not his heart, and passes out into the drain" (He thus pronounced all 20 foods clean). And he said, "What issues from a man is what makes a 21 man unclean. For out of the heart of men within, issue the wicked 22 designs, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, coveting, malice, deceit, 23 sensuality, enviousness, slander, haughtiness, recklessness: all these wicked things issue from within and make a man unclean."

24 Now he rose and went away from there into the territory of Tyre.1 And going into a house he wished no one to know of it. Yet he 25 could not escape notice; immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, came when she heard of him and fell down at his 26 feet. (The woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by race.) And she 27 begged him to cast the daemon out of her daughter. But he kept saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first. It is not fair to take the 28 children's bread and throw it to the dogs." And she answered and says to him, "True, sir. Yet the dogs eat the children's crumbs below the table!" 29 And he said to her, "For this saying go thy way; the daemon has left 30 thy daughter." And she went away home and found the child lying on 31 the bed with the daemon gone from her.

Then once more he left the

territory of Tyre and went through Sidon to the sea of Galilee through the 32 middle of the district of Dekapolis. And they bring him a man who was 33 deaf and stammering, beseeching him to lay his hand upon him. So he

took him aside privately from the crowd and put his fingers into his ears; 34 and after spitting he touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven he groaned; then he says to him, "Ephphatha" (that is, "be opened"). 35 And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosened and 36 he began to speak correctly. And he enjoined them to tell no one; but 37 the more he charged them, the more widely they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well: he makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”

81 In those days again there was a great crowd and they had nothing to 2 eat. And he called his disciples to him and says to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because for three days now they have stayed 3 by me, and they have nothing to eat. Besides, if I send them away home fasting, they will faint on the road. And some of them have come a long 4 distance." And his disciples answered him, "Where can one get bread 5 to satisfy these men, here in a desert?" And he asked them, "How 1 Omitting [[ad Zidävos]].

6 many loaves have you?" And they said, "Seven." Then he charges the crowd to lie down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, gave thanks, broke them and went on giving to his disciples to set before 7 the crowd; and they set the food before them. And they had a few small fish, and after blessing them he told them to set these before them 8 as well. So they ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven large 9 baskets of fragments that were left over (the people numbered about four 10 thousand). Then he dismissed them, and immediately entered the boat 11 with his disciples and went into the districts of Dalmanutha.

And

the Pharisees came out and started to dispute with him, requiring from 12 him a sign from the sky, to make trial of him. And he sighed heavily in his spirit and says,

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"Why does this generation require a sign?

I tell you truly, no sign shall be given this generation."

13 And he left them, entered the boat again, and departed to the opposite side. And they had forgotten to take bread, and had not with them 15 in the boat more than a single loaf. And he enjoined them, saying, "See 16 and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod !" And 17 they argued with one another, "It is because we have no bread." But on perceiving it he says to them, "Why argue because you have no bread ? Do you not yet understand, do you not yet make it out? Is your heart 18 hardened? You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear? 19 and do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you took up when I broke the five loaves among the five thousand?" They say to 20 him "Twelve." "And how many large baskets of fragments did you take up when I broke the seven among the four thousand?" And they say 21 to him "Seven." Then he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?" 22 And they came to Bethsaida. And people bring him a blind man 23 and beseech him to touch him. And he took hold of the blind man's hand and brought him outside the village. And after spitting upon his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked him, "Beholdest thou any24 thing?" And he looked up and said, "I behold people: I see them 25 walking, like trees." Then he laid his hands once more upon his eyes; and the man stared straight before him, and was quite restored, and 26 began to distinguish everything clearly. And he sent him away home, saying, "Do not even enter the village."

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And Jesus went away with his disciples to the village of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road he questioned his disciples, saying to them, 28 "Who do people say that I am?" And they told him, "John the baptizer.' Yet others say, 'Elijah'; and others, 'One of the prophets.' 29 And he questioned them, "But you-who do you say that I am?" Peter 30 answering says to him, "Thou art the Christ." And he charged them 31 to tell no one about him. And he began to teach them that the

Son of man must suffer much, and be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32, 33 Indeed he uttered the saying openly. Then Peter took him and started to rebuke him; but he turned, and on seeing his disciples he rebuked Peter saying, "Get behind me, thou Satan! Thy mind is not on the 34 affairs of God, but on the affairs of men." And he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them,

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"If any man would come after me,

Let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever would save his life

Shall lose it:

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And whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's,

Shall save it.

What use is it for a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
What could a man give in exchange for his life?

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my

In this adulterous and sinful generation,

words

The Son of man shall also be ashamed of him,

When he comes in his Father's majesty with the holy angels."

9 1 And he said to them, "I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who shall not taste death, until they see the coming of God's 2 reign with power." And after six days Jesus takes Peter and James and John aside, and brings them up a high mountain privately, 3 alone. And he was transformed before them; and his garments glistened with a vivid whiteness such as no fuller on earth can produce. 4 And Elijah together with Moses appeared to them; and they were 5 talking with Jesus. Then Peter breaking in says to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is fine for us to be here. Now, let us make three booths, one 6 for thee and one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know 7 what to say, for they were frightened.) And a cloud came overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, the be8 loved listen to him." And suddenly on looking round they no longer 9 saw anyone except Jesus alone with themselves. And as they were descending from the mountain he enjoined them not to describe to anyone what they had seen, until after the Son of man should have arisen 10 from the dead. And they kept hold of the saying, discussing among 11 themselves what the "arising from the dead meant." And they plied

him with the question, "How is it that the scribes say, Elijah must 12 come first?" And he said to them, "Elijah comes first indeed, and he restores all. (And yet, how is it written regarding the Son of man? that 13 he is to suffer much and be despised.) But I tell you: Elijah has actually come, and they have done to him whatever they pleased, even as it is written of him."

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And when they came to the disciples they saw a large crowd round 15 them, and the scribes in a discussion with them. And on seeing him all the crowd were immediately astounded, and running to him they saluted 16 him. And he questioned them, "What are you discussing with them?" 17 And a man out of the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought thee 18 my son. He has a dumb spirit; and whenever it seizes him it hurls him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth. And he is pining away. So 19 I told thy disciples to cast it out; but they had no power." He says to them in answer, "O_incredulous generation, how long am I to be with 20 you? how long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." And they brought him to him. But on seeing him the spirit immediately convulsed him terribly, and falling on the ground he rolled about foaming. 21 And he asked his father, "How long is it since this befell him?" And 22 he said, "From childhood. And many a time it has thrown him now into fire, now into water, to destroy him. But if thou canst do anything, 23 have compassion upon us and help us." Jesus said to him, "If thou 24 canst'!--Anything can be done for the man who believes." Immediately the father of the child shouted and said, "I do believe. Help my un25 belief!" Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was hurrying together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I 26 command thee, leave him and never enter him again." Then after crying and wildly convulsing him it came out, and the child turned like a

27 corpse; so that most of the people said, "He is dead." But Jesus took 28 him by the hand and raised him, and he arose. And when he went into the house his disciples plied him in private with the question, 29 "How is it that we could not cast it out?" And he said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out, except prayer."

30 Then they departed thence upon their journey through Galilee. Yet 31 he wished no one to know it; for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of man will be delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and when he is killed, he shall rise again 32 after three days." But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

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And they came to Kapharnahum. And when he was in the house he 34 questioned them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" And they kept silence, for they had been disputing with one another on the 35 road about who was the greatest. So he sat down, called the twelve, and says to them, "If any one would be first, he shall be last of all and servant 36 of all." Then he took and set a little child in their midst, and putting his arms round it he said to them,

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"Whoever shall receive a little child like this in my name, receives me : And whoever receives me, receives not me so much as him who sent me."

38 [John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in thy 39 name;1 and we tried to prevent him, because he did not follow us." But Jesus said, "Prevent him not.

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No one shall work a miracle in my name and then decry me presently:

He who is not against us is for us.]

For whoever shall give you were it only a cup of water to drink, because you are Christ's,

I tell you truly, he shall not lose his reward:

And whoever shall be a hindrance to one of these little ones who

believe,

Better for him were a great mill-stone fastened round his neck,

and were he thrown into the sea!

And should thy hand hinder thee, cut it away:

Better for thee to enter life maimed,

Than with thy two hands to depart into Gehenna, into the fire unquenchable!

And should thy foot hinder thee, cut it away:

Better for thee to enter life lame,

Than with thy two feet to be thrown into Gehenna !

Better for thee to enter God's reign with one eye,

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And should thine eye hinder thee, pull it out:

Than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,

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Where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched!

For with fire shall everyone be salted.

Salt is a capital thing:

But if salt has become saltless, wherewith will you season it?
Have salt among yourselves :

Yea, be at peace with one another."

And rising up he goes from there into the territory of Judaea and across the Jordan. And crowds again gather to him; and again he taught them as 2 was his custom. And Pharisees approached him and—to make

1 Omitting [[ὃς οὐκ ἀκολουθεῖ ἡμῖν]].

trial of him-questioned him, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?" 3 And he answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?' 4" Moses," they said, "gave permission to write a bill of repudiation and so 5 divorce her." But Jesus said to them, "It was out of regard for your 6 stubbornness of heart that he wrote you this commandment. But from the 7 beginning of the creation male and female he made them. For this cause a 8 man shall leave his father and mother; and the two shall become one flesh. 9, 10 What God has joined, then, let not man separate." And in the house the 11 disciples questioned him again upon this subject. And he says to them, "Whoever shall divorce his wife and marry another, commits adultery against her.

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And if she shall divorce her husband and marry another, she commits adultery."

And people were bringing him little children that he might touch 14 them; but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw it, however, he was indignant and said to them,

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"Let the little children come to me, forbid them not;

For of such is the reign of God.

I tell you truly, whoever shall not receive the reign of God like a little child,
Shall not enter it."

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And as he came out upon the road, a man ran to him, knelt before him and questioned him, "Good teacher, what am I to do, to inherit 18 life eternal?" Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is 19 good, except God alone. Thou knowest the commandments: do not

murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not 20 defraud, honour thy father and mother." He said to him, "Teacher, all 21 these have I observed from my youth." Jesus looked at him and loved him; then he said to him, "One thing thou lackest. Go, sell whatever. thou hast and give it to the poor; so shalt thou have treasure in heaven. 22 Then come, follow me.' But his face clouded over at the saying, and 23 he went away sorrowful; for he was one who had great possessions. Then Jesus looked round him ands ays to his disciples, "With what 24 difficulty shall the wealthy enter God's reign!" And the disciples were amazed at what he said. But once more Jesus addresses then, saying. "Children, how difficult it is to enter God's reign!

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It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye,
Than for a rich man to enter God's reign."

26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to themselves, “Then 27 who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and says,

"With men it is impossible, but not with God:

for anything is possible with God."

28 Peter began to say to him, "Lo, we have left all and followed thee." 29 Jesus said, "I tell you truly; there is no man who leaves house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake 30 and for the gospel's sake, without receiving a hundred fold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, 31 with persecutions; and in the age to come, life eternal. But many who are first shall be last, and the last first."

32 Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went in front of them. And they were in dismay, while some who followed were in fear. And he took the twelve once more aside and began to tell them 33 what was to happen to him, saying, "Lo, we are going up to Jerusalem;