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Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)

All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean."

They brought him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment and asked Yeshua to lay his hand on him.

People were overcome with amazement. "Everything he does, he does well!" they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

It was during that time that another large crowd gathered, and they had nothing to eat. Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said to them,

"I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat.

The P'rushim came and began arguing with him; they wanted him to give them a sign from Heaven, because they were out to trap him.

"And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?" "Seven," they answered.

They came to Beit-Tzaidah. Some people brought him a blind man and begged Yeshua to touch him.

He looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like walking trees."

"Some say you are Yochanan the Immerser," they told him, "others say Eliyahu, and still others, one of the prophets."

Six days later, Yeshua took Kefa, Ya‘akov and Yochanan and led them up a high mountain privately. As they watched, he began to change form,

Then they saw Eliyahu and Moshe speaking with Yeshua.

There's more to it: I tell you that Eliyahu has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as the Tanakh says about him."

When they got back to the talmidim, they saw a large crowd around them and some Torah-teachers arguing with them.

As soon as the crowd saw him, they were surprised and ran out to greet him.

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground — he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth and becomes stiff all over. I asked your talmidim to drive the spirit out, but they couldn't do it."

They brought the boy to him; and as soon as the spirit saw him, it threw the boy into a convulsion.

But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

They said, "Moshe allowed a man to hand his wife a get and divorce her."