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    "chapter": 15
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    "n": 15,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MAT-15:1",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.1",
        "text": "Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MAT-15:2",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.2",
        "text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MAT-15:3",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.3",
        "text": "And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MAT-15:4",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.4",
        "text": "For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MAT-15:5",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.5",
        "text": "But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God];"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MAT-15:6",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.6",
        "text": "he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MAT-15:7",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.7",
        "text": "Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MAT-15:8",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.8",
        "text": "This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MAT-15:9",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.9",
        "text": "But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MAT-15:10",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.10",
        "text": "And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MAT-15:11",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.11",
        "text": "Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MAT-15:12",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.12",
        "text": "Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "MAT-15:13",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.13",
        "text": "But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "MAT-15:14",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.14",
        "text": "Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "MAT-15:15",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.15",
        "text": "And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us the parable."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "MAT-15:16",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.16",
        "text": "And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "MAT-15:17",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.17",
        "text": "Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "MAT-15:18",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.18",
        "text": "But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "MAT-15:19",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.19",
        "text": "For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "MAT-15:20",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.20",
        "text": "these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "MAT-15:21",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.21",
        "text": "And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "MAT-15:22",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.22",
        "text": "And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "MAT-15:23",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.23",
        "text": "But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "MAT-15:24",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.24",
        "text": "But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "MAT-15:25",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.25",
        "text": "But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "MAT-15:26",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.26",
        "text": "And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "MAT-15:27",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.27",
        "text": "But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters` table."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "MAT-15:28",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.28",
        "text": "Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "MAT-15:29",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.29",
        "text": "And Jesus departed thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "MAT-15:30",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.30",
        "text": "And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at this feet; and he healed them:"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "MAT-15:31",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.31",
        "text": "insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "MAT-15:32",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.32",
        "text": "And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint on the way."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "MAT-15:33",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.33",
        "text": "And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "MAT-15:34",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.34",
        "text": "And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "MAT-15:35",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.35",
        "text": "And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "MAT-15:36",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.36",
        "text": "and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "MAT-15:37",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.37",
        "text": "And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "MAT-15:38",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.38",
        "text": "And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "MAT-15:39",
        "verseRef": "MAT.15.39",
        "text": "And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan."
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