The One Year Bible New Testament for New Beginnings by DaySpring NLT, Filament Enabled - Book - Page 48
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How important it is to keep our eyes on Jesus! We can learn to trust Jesus and depend on him completely. When we 昀椀nd ourselves sinking, we simply cry out to Jesus
and ask him to rescue us. He will help us!
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Some Pharisees and teachers of religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked
him, 2“Why do your disciples disobey our age-old tradition? For they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat.”
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Jesus replied, “And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God? 4For
instance, God says, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father
or mother must be put to death.’ 5But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry,
I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’ 6In this way, you
say they don’t need to honor their parents. And so you cancel the word of God for the sake of your
own tradition. 7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,
‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
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Their worship is a farce,
for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’”
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Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said, “and try to understand. 11It’s
not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your
mouth.”
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Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you realize you offended the Pharisees by what
you just said?”
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Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted, 14so ignore them.
They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall
into a ditch.”
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Then Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable that says people aren’t defiled by what they
eat.”
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“Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked. 17“Anything you eat passes through the stomach and
then goes into the sewer. 18But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.
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For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. 20These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
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Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Gentile woman who
lived there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! For my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.”
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But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell
her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
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Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.”
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But she came and worshiped him, pleading again, “Lord, help me!”
