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But he answered them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves!" They replied, "We are to go and spend thousands on bread, and give it to them to eat?"

but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought it was a ghost and let out a shriek;

The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"

Yeshua answered them, "Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites — as it is written, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.

But you say, ‘If someone says to his father or mother, "I have promised as a korban" ' " (that is, as a gift to God) " ‘ "what I might have used to help you," '

For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine." (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)

Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.

She answered him, "That is true, sir; but even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers."

Yeshua ordered the people to tell no one; but the more he insisted, the more zealously they spread the news.

But, aware of this, he said, "Why are you talking with each other about having no bread? Don't you see or understand yet? Have your hearts been made like stone?

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

"But you," he asked, "who do you say I am?" Kefa answered, "You are the Mashiach."

He began teaching them that the Son of Man had to endure much suffering and be rejected by the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that after three days, he had to rise again.

But, turning around and looking at his talmidim, he rebuked Kefa. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said, "For your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God's perspective!"

For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it.

Indeed, what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life?

So they kept the matter to themselves; but they continued asking each other, "What is this ‘rising from the dead'?"

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."

"and it often tries to kill him by throwing him into the fire or into the water. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

But Yeshua took him by the hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.