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And when Jesus again crossed over in the boat to the opposite side a large crowd had gathered to meet him; so he remained beside the sea. 22 Then there comes one of the presidents of the synagogue, Jaeiros by 23 name; and on seeing him he falls at his feet repeatedly, beseeching him with the words, "My little daughter is at the point of death. O come 24 and lay thy hands on her, that she may be restored to life!" Then he went away with him. And a large crowd followed him, and people were 25 pressing round him. And there was a woman who had had an issue 26 of blood for twelve years; she had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all her means, yet was none the better, but had rather 27 grown worse. She had heard about Jesus, and coming behind him in the 28 crowd she touched his cloak (for she kept saying, "If I touch but his 29 garments, I shall be restored "). Then the flow of her blood was immedi

ately dried up, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her plague. 30 And Jesus, conscious immediately that power had gone out from him, turned round in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?" 31 And his disciples said to him, "Thou seest the crowd is pressing round 32 thee, yet thou sayest, 'Who touched me?'!" But he kept looking round 33 about to see her who had done this. So the woman, aware of what had

happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and 34 told him all the truth. And he said to her, "Daughter, thy faith has re35 stored thee. Go in peace and be healed from thy plague." While

he was still speaking, people came from the house of the president of the synagogue saying, "Thy daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any 36 further?" But paying no heed to what they were saying, Jesus says to 37 the president of the synagogue, "Fear not, only believe." And he would not let anyone accompany him, except Peter and James and John the 38 brother of James. And they go to the house of the president of the synagogue. And observing a tumult of people wailing with many tears 39 and shrill cries, he went in and says to them, "Why wail and weep? the 40 child is not dead but asleep." And they laughed him to scorn. But

after putting them all out he takes aside the father of the child and her 41 mother and his companions, and goes in to where the child lay. And taking the child's hand he says to her, "Talitha koum" (which when 42 translated means, "Little girl, I say to thee, rise"). And immediately the girl rose up and began to walk (for she was twelve years old). Then 43 they were immediately thrown into great amazement. But he enjoined

them earnestly that no one was to know of this, and told them to give her something to eat.

61 And he departed thence, and enters his own native place, followed by 2 his disciples. And when the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue; and most people, as they heard him, were astonished and said, "Where has he got this?" and "What is the wisdom he has had given him?" and "What mean such miracles as these worked by his 3 hands?" "Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here 4 with us?" So they were repelled by him. And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not unhonoured except in his own native place and among his 5 own kinsfolk and in his own household." And he could not work any miracle there, beyond laying his hands upon a few sick people and healing them. And he marvelled at their unbelief.

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And he made a tour through the villages, teaching. Also, calling the twelve to him, he started to send them out two by two, giving them 8 authority over the unclean spirits; and he charged them to take nothing

for their journey except a staff, no bread, no wallet, no money in their 9 girdles, but to go shod with sandals, "and" (he said) "put not on two 10 tunics." And he said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay 11 there till you leave the place. And whatever place will not receive you, and the people refuse to listen to you, when you are leaving there, shake 12 off the dust that is under your feet, for a witness to them." And they 13 went out and preached that men were to repent. And they cast out many daemons, and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them. And king Herod heard of it—for his name had become known, and people said, "John the baptizer is risen from the dead, and that is 15 why miraculous powers are active in him." Others said, "It is Elijah," 16 others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the prophets." But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John whom I beheaded, he has risen."

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For he, Herod, had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip (because he had married her). For John had repeated to Herod, "Thou hast no right to have thy brother's wife." Now Herodias cherished a grudge against him and wanted to kill him; but she could not. For Herod stood in awe of John, as he knew him to be an upright and holy man; so he kept him safe. And when he listened to him he was greatly perturbed; yet he was glad to listen to him. Then a convenient day arrived. Herod on his birthday made a feast for his magnates and for the generals and the leading men of Galilee, and the daughter of Herodias went in and danced, to the delight of Herod and the other guests. And the king said to the girl, "Ask me whatever thou wilt and I will give it thee." And he swore to her, “Whatever thou shalt ask 2 I will give thee-were it the half of my realm!" So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" She said, "The head of John the baptizer.' Then immediately she went in with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want thee to give me directly on a dish the head of John the baptizer." And the king was very sorry. Still, for the sake of his oaths and of his guests he was unwilling to disappoint her. So the king immediately sent out a soldier of the guard with orders to bring his head; and he went, beheaded him in the prison, brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother. And on hearing of it, his disciples came and carried away his corpse and laid it in a tomb.

And the apostles gather to Jesus, and they reported to him all that 31 they had done and all that they had taught. And he says to them, "Come by yourselves into a desert place in private, and rest a little." (For there were many people coming and going, and they had no time 32 even to eat.) And they went off in the boat to a desert place in private. 33 Yet many people saw and recognised them as they went, and gathering 34 hurriedly on foot from all the cities they got there before them. So on

disembarking he saw a large crowd, and moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, he began to teach 35 them many things. And as the day was now far advanced, his disciples came to him and said, "It is a desert place, and the day is now far 36 advanced; dismiss them, that they may go into the surrounding hamlets 37 and villages and buy themselves something to eat." He answered and said to them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves." And they say to him, "Are we to go and spend two hundred shillings upon bread, and 1 Reading ἔλεγον. 2 Omitting μ.

38 give them to eat?" And he says to them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." And when they had ascertained it, they say, "Five; and 39 two fish." Then he ordered them all to recline in parties on the green 40, 41 grass. So they lay down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and after the blessing broke the loaves in pieces; and he went on giving them to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all. 42, 43 And they all ate and were satisfied. Also, they took up twelve baskets 44 full of fragments of the bread and also of the fish. (And those who ate 45 the loaves numbered five thousand men.) Then he immediately

made his disciples embark in the boat and go before him to the 46 opposite side, to Bethsaida, until he dismissed the crowd. And after 47 taking leave of them he went away up the mountain to pray. And

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when evening came the boat was in mid-sea, while he was on the 48 land alone. And when he saw them harassed as they rowed (for the wind was contrary to them), he comes to them about the fourth watch of the night walking on the sea. And he would have passed them, 49 but when they saw him walking on the sea they imagined it was an 50 apparition and shrieked; for they all saw him and were troubled. But he immediately talked to them; "Be of good cheer," he says to them, 51 "it is I, be not afraid." And he got up beside them in the boat, and the wind dropped. And they were greatly amazed within themselves; 52 for they did not understand about the loaves, but their heart was 53 hardened. And on crossing over to the land they came to 54 Gennesaret and moored to the shore. And when they had disem55 barked from the boat, the people immediately recognised him, and went hurrying round the whole of that district, and started to carry about on their pallets those who were ill, wherever they heard he 56 was. And wherever he entered villages or cities or hamlets, they would lay the sick in the market-places beseeching him to let them touch were it only the tassel of his cloak: and all who touched it were restored.

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And there gather to him the Pharisees and some of the scribes, who 2 had come down from Jerusalem. They had observed that some of his 3 disciples ate their food with unclean (that is, unwashed) hands. For the Pharisees and all the Jews refuse to eat without vigorously washing their 4 hands; as they hold to the tradition of the elders. Also, they refuse to eat after coming from the market-place, until they sprinkle themselves.2 And there are many other matters which they have received and hold to, 5 washings of cups and pots and brazen vessels.-Then the Pharisees and the scribes question him, "Why do not thy disciples walk after the tradition of the elders, instead of eating their bread with unclean 6 hands?" And he said to them,

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"Finely did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written : This people honours me with their lips,

While their heart is far away from me ;

Yet in vain do they worship me,

Teaching doctrines which are mere human precepts.

You omit God's commandment

And hold to man's tradition."

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"A fine thing it is for you to set aside God's commandment
That you may keep your own tradition!

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2 Reading ραντίσωνται.

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Honour thy father and thy mother, and

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

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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."

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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 [[xai Σidãvos]].

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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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: