Section XX.
[1]
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And Jesus knew
within himself that his disciples were murmuring because of [2] that,
and he said unto them, Doth this trouble you?
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What
if ye should see the Son [3] of
man then ascend to the place where he was of old?
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It is the spirit that quickeneth, and the
body profiteth nothing: the words
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that I speak unto you are spirit [4] and life.
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But there are some of you that do not
believe. And Jesus knew beforehand who they were who
should
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not believe, and
who it was that should betray [5] him.
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And
he said unto them, Therefore I said unto you, No man can come unto me,
if that hath not been given him by the Father.
[6] [Arabic, p. 78]
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And because of
this word many of his disciples turned back and walked [7] not with
him.
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And Jesus said unto
the twelve, Do ye haply also wish to [8] go away?
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Simon Cephas answered and said, My Lord, to
whom shall we go? thou [9] hast the words of eternal life.
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And we have believed and known that thou art
the [10] Messiah, the Son of the living God.
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Jesus said unto them, Did not I choose you,
[11] ye company of the twelve, and of you one is a devil?
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He said that because of Judas the son of
Simon Iscariot; for he, being of the twelve, was purposed to
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betray him.
[12]
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And while he was
speaking, one of the Pharisees came asking of him that he [13] would
eat with him: and he went in, and reclined
to meat
.
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And that Pharisee, when [14] he saw
it,
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marvelled that he had not first cleansed
himself before his eating.
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Jesus said unto
him, Now do ye Pharisees wash the outside of the cup and the dish, and
ye think that ye are cleansed; but your inside is full of injustice and
wickedness.
[15, 16]
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Ye of little mind,
did not he that made the outside make the inside?
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Now give what ye have
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in
alms, and everything
shall be
clean unto you.
[17, 18]
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And there came to
him Pharisees and scribes, come from Jerusalem.
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And when they saw some of his disciples
eating bread while they had not washed their hands, [19] they found
fault.
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For all of the Jews
and the Pharisees, if they wash not their [20] hands thoroughly, eat
not; for they held
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to the
ordinance
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of the
elders.
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And they ate not
what was bought from the market, except they washed it; and many other
things did they keep of what they had received, such as the washing of
cups, and [21] measures, and vessels of brass, and couches.
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And scribes
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and Pharisees asked him,
[Arabic,
p. 79] Why do thy disciples not walk according to the ordinances of the
elders, but [22] eat bread without washing their hands?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, Why do ye
also overstep the command of God by reason of your ordinance?
[23]
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God said, Honour thy father and thy mother;
and, Whosoever revileth his father and [24] his mother shall surely
die.
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But ye say, If a man
say to his father or to his mother, [25] What thou receivest
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from me is an offering,—
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and ye
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suffer him not
to do anything [26] for his father or his mother;
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and ye
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make void and
reject the word of God by reason of the ordinance that ye have ordained
and commanded, such as the washing [27] of cups and measures, and what
resembles that ye do much.
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And ye forsook
[28] the command of God, and held to the ordinance of men.
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Do
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ye well to
wrong
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[29] the command of God in order that ye may
establish your ordinance?
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Ye hypocrites,
well did Isaiah the prophet prophesy concerning you, and say,
[30]
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This people
honoureth me with its
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lips;
But their heart is very far from me.
[31]
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But in vain do they
fear me,
In that they teach the commands of men.
[32]
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And Jesus called all
the multitude, and said unto them, Hear me, all of you, and [33]
understand:
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nothing without the
man, which then enters him, is able to defile him; [34] but what goeth
out of him, that it is which defileth the man.
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He that hath ears [35] that hear, let him
hear.
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Then his disciples
drew near, and said unto him, Knowest [36] thou that the Pharisees
which heard this word were angry?
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He
answered and said unto them, Every plant which my Father which is in
heaven planted not shall be [37] [Arabic, p. 80] uprooted.
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Let them alone; for they are blind leading
blind. And if the blind lead
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the blind,
both of them shall fall into a hollow.
[38]
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And when Jesus
entered the house from the multitude, Simon Cephas asked him, [39] and
said unto him, My Lord, explain to us that parable.
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He said unto them, Do ye also thus not
understand? Know ye not that everything that entereth into the
[40] man from without cannot defile him;
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because it entereth not into his heart; it
entereth into his stomach only, and thence is cast forth in the
cleansing which maketh [41] clean all the food?
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The thing which
goeth forth from the mouth of the man proceedeth [42] from his heart,
and it is that which defileth the man.
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From within
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the [43] heart of men proceed evil thoughts,
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fornication, adultery, theft, false witness,
murder, injustice, wickedness, deceit, stupidity, evil eye, calumny,
pride, foolishness: [44]
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these evils all
of them from within proceed from the heart, and they are
the
things
[45] which defile the man:
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but
if a man eat while he washeth not his hands, he is not defiled.
[46]
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And Jesus went out
thence, and came to the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered
into a certain house, and desired that no man should know it;
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and [47] he could not be hid.
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But straightway a Canaanitish woman, whose
daughter had an [48, 49] unclean spirit, heard of him.
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And that woman was a Gentile of Emesa of
Syria.
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And she came out
after him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy upon me, my Lord,
thou
[50] son of David; for my daughter is seized in an evil way
by Satan.
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And he answered [Arabic, p. 81] her not a
word. And his disciples came and besought him, and said, Send
[51] her away: for she crieth after us.
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He answered and said unto them, I was [52]
not sent except to the sheep that are gone astray of the house of
Israel.
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But she came and
worshipped him, and said, My Lord, help me, have mercy upon me.
[53]
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Jesus said unto her,
It is not seemly that the children’s bread should be taken and
[54] thrown to the dogs.
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But she said,
Yea, my Lord: the dogs also eat of the crumbs [55] that fall from
their masters’ tables, and live.
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Then said Jesus unto her, O woman, [56] great
is thy faith: it shall be unto thee as thou hast desired.
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Go then
thy way;
and [57] because of
this word, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
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And her daughter was [58] healed in that
hour.
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And that woman went
away to her house, and found her daughter laid upon the bed, and the
devil gone out of her.
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John vi. 61
.
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John vi. 62
.
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John vi. 63
.
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Lit.
speech
.
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John vi. 64
.
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Or,
did
.
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John vi. 65
.
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John vi. 66
.
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John vi. 67
.
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John vi. 68
.
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John vi. 69
.
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John vi. 70
.
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John vi. 71
.
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Or,
was
to
.
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Luke xi. 37
.
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Luke xi. 38
.
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Or,
him.
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Luke xi. 39
.
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Luke xi. 40
.
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Luke xi. 41
.
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cf
.
Peshitta.
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Mark vii. 1
.
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Mark vii. 2
.
1425
Mark vii. 3
.
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i.e.,
were
holding
.
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Or,
custom,
tradition
; and so wherever the word occurs.
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Mark vii. 4
.
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Mark vii. 5
.
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Sic
.
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Matt. xv. 3
.
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Matt. xv. 4a; Mark vii. 10b
.
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Mark vii. 11
.
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The printed
Arabic text has
he receiveth
and
they
, resulting from a
misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
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Mark vii. 12
.
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The printed
Arabic text has
he receiveth
and
they
, resulting from a
misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
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Mark vii. 13
.
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The printed
Arabic text has
he receiveth
and
they
, resulting from a
misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
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Mark vii. 8
.
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Mark vii. 9
.
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Here begins verse 9 in
Greek.
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The Syriac word
for
injure
also means
reject, deny
.
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Matt. xv. 7
.
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Matt. xv. 8
.
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Sic
.
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Matt. xv. 9
.
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Mark vii. 14
.
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Mark vii. 15
.
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Mark vii. 16
.
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Matt. xv. 12
.
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Matt. xv. 13
.
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Matt. xv. 14
.
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The Arabic word is
here used with a Syriac meaning.
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Mark vii. 17a; Matt. xv. 15
.
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Mark vii. 18
b.
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Mark vii. 19
.
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This clause in the
Peshitta is not very clear, and the Arabic version fails to get from it
the meaning of the Greek.
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Matt. xv. 18
.
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Mark vii. 21
.
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Or,
From
within, from
.
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Mark vii. 22
.
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Mark vii. 23
.
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Matt. xv. 20
b.
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Matt. xv. 21a; Mark vii. 24b
.
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Or,
about
him
.
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Mark vii. 25
a.
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Mark vii. 26
a.
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Matt. xv. 22
b.
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Or,
the
devil
.
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Matt. xv. 23
.
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Matt. xv. 24
.
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Matt. xv. 25
.
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Matt. xv. 26
.
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Matt. xv. 27
.
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Matt. xv. 28
a.
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Mark vii. 29
b.
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Matt. xv. 28
b.
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Mark vii. 30
.