Matthew 14:20-19:2 And they all ate and had aplenty. Then they took up the pieces left over, which made twelve basketfuls.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ And they all ate and had aplenty. Then they took up the pieces left over, which made twelve basketfuls. ²¹ The people fed numbered about five thousand men, besides women and children. ²² And He at once had the disciples get into the boat and cross to the other side ahead of Him, while He dismissed the crowds. ²³ After He had dismissed the crowds, He went up the hill alone to pray. And after the evening came on, He was there alone, ²⁴ but the boat was already a long way from shore, and was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them. ²⁵ Just before day He went out to them, walking on the sea. ²⁶ And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, "It is a ghost!" And they screamed with fright. ²⁷ Then Jesus at once spoke to them, "Be men of courage! It is I; stop being afraid." ²⁸ Peter answered Him, "Lord, if it is you, let me come to you on the water." ²⁹ And He said, "Come." And Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water, and he went toward Jesus. ³⁰ But when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and as he began to go down, he cried out, "Lord, save me!" ³¹ Jesus at once put out His hand and caught hold of him, and said to him, "O you of little faith! Why did you waver so?" ³² And when they got into the boat, the wind lulled, ³³ And the men in the boat worshiped Him, and said, "You are certainly God's Son." ³⁴ And they crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret. ³⁵ And the men of that place recognized Him, and sent into all the countryside and brought to Him all who were sick, ³⁶ and they continued to beg Him to let them touch just the tassel on His coat, and all who barely touched it were completely cured. ¹⁵ ¹ Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and asked Him, ² "Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals." ³ But He answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you? ⁴ For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.' ⁵ But you say, 'Whoever tells his father or mother, "Everything I have that might be used for helping you, is devoted to God," ⁶ is under no obligation at all to help his parent.' So you have set aside what God has said for the sake of what has been handed down to you. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied beautifully about you, when he said: ⁸ "'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me; ⁹ Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'" ¹⁰ And He called the people to Him and said, "Listen to this and learn it! ¹¹ It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul." ¹² Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?" ¹³ He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch." ¹⁵ Then Peter said to Him, "Explain the maxim for us." ¹⁶ And He said, "Are you too, even yet, without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and afterwards into the waste? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech. ²⁰ These are the things that make a man foul, but eating with unwashed hands does not make a man foul." ²¹ Then Jesus left there and slipped away to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon." ²³ But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us." ²⁴ But He answered, "I have been sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house." ²⁵ But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!" ²⁶ He answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the house dogs." ²⁷ She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." ²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, wonderful is your faith! You must have what you want." And her daughter was cured at that very moment. ²⁹ Then Jesus left there and went to the shore of the sea of Galilee. Then He went up the hill and kept sitting there, ³⁰ and great crowds came up to Him bringing with them the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He cured them, ³¹ so that the crowd was astonished to see the dumb talking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel. ³² Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home." ³³ The disciples said to Him, "Where in this destitute place can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?" ³⁴ Then Jesus asked them, "How many loaves have you on hand?" They answered, "Seven and a few small fish." ³⁵ Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground, ³⁶ and He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks; then He broke them in pieces, and kept giving the pieces to the disciples, and they to the crowds. ³⁷ And they all ate and had aplenty, and they took up the pieces left over, which made seven hamper-basketfuls. ³⁸ Those fed numbered four thousand men, besides women and children. ³⁹ Then He sent the crowds away, got into the boat, and went to the district of Magadan. ¹⁶ ¹ The Pharisees and the Sadducees came up, and to test Him asked Him to show them a spectacular sign from heaven. ² He answered, ³ Omitted Text. ⁴ "It is a wicked and immoral age that is hankering for a spectacular sign, so no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah." Then He left them and went away. ⁵ When the disciples crossed the sea, they forgot to take any bread. ⁶ And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees!" ⁷ Then they began to discuss it among themselves, and said, "It is because we did not take any bread." ⁸ Jesus knew it and said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Have you so little faith? ⁹ Do you not understand yet? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many basketfuls you took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many hamper-basketfuls you took up? ¹¹ How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread, when I said, keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?" ¹² Then they understood that He meant, guard yourselves not against yeast for bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. ¹³ When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" ¹⁴ They answered, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." ¹⁵ He said to them, "Who do you yourselves say that I am?" ¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." ¹⁷ Then Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for it is not man that made this known to you, but my Father in heaven. ¹⁸ And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you forbid on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven." ²⁰ Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ. ²¹ It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day. ²² And Peter took Him aside and began to chide Him, as he said, "Heaven shield you, my Lord! This must never be your lot!" ²³ But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men." ²⁴ Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me. ²⁵ For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life. ²⁶ For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life? ²⁷ For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done. ²⁸ I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." ¹⁷ ¹ Six days after this, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain, by themselves. ² And in their presence His appearance was changed and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes turned as white as light. ³ Then Moses and Elijah appeared to them and kept talking with Him. ⁴ And Peter interrupted, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here! If you consent, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." ⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!" ⁶ When the disciples heard it, they fell upon their faces, for they were terribly frightened. ⁷ Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Get up and do not be so afraid." ⁸ They looked up and saw no one but Jesus Himself. ⁹ And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead." ¹⁰ The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready. ¹² But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist. ¹⁴ When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying, ¹⁵ "Lord, do pity my son, for he has epilepsy and suffers excruciating pain, and often falls into the fire or into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." ¹⁷ And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" ¹⁸ And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment. ¹⁹ After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?" ²⁰ He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do." ²¹ Omitted Text. ²² While they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be turned over into the hands of men, ²³ and they will kill Him, but on the third day He will be raised again." And they were crushed with grief. ²⁴ When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the temple tax?" ²⁵ He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?" ²⁶ He answered, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "So their own citizens are exempt, ²⁷ but still, that we may not influence them to do anything wrong, go down to the sea and throw over a hook. Pull in the first fish that bites, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take it and pay the tax for both of us." ¹⁸ ¹ Just at that moment the disciples came up and asked Jesus, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" ² And He called a little child to Him, and had him stand in the midst of them, ³ and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all. ⁴ So then, whoever becomes as lowly as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, ⁵ and whoever welcomes one little child like this for my sake welcomes me. ⁶ But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea. ⁷ A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come! ⁸ "And if your own hand or your own foot makes you do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way. It is better for you to get into life maimed or crippled than to have both hands or both feet to be thrown into everlasting torture. ⁹ And if your own eye makes you do wrong, pluck it out and put it out of your way. It is better for you to go into life with a single eye than to have both eyes to be thrown into the pit of torture. ¹⁰ "Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven. ¹¹ Omitted Text. ¹² "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides, and go and search for the one that is lost? ¹³ And if he finds it, I solemnly say to you, he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that did not get lost. ¹⁴ Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that a single one of these little ones be lost. ¹⁵ "Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two others, so as to have every word confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, report it to the church. ¹⁷ And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector. ¹⁸ I solemnly say to you, whatever you forbid on earth must be already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be already permitted in heaven. ¹⁹ "Again, I tell you, if only two of you on earth agree on what they pray for, they will get it from my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For wherever two or three have met as my disciples, I am right there with them." ²¹ Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?" ²² Jesus answered him: "I tell you, not as many as seven, but as many as seventy times seven! ²³ So the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle up his accounts with his slaves, ²⁴ And when he began, a man was brought to him who owed him ten million dollars. ²⁵ And because he could not pay it, his master ordered him to be sold, yea, even his wife and children and all he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.' ²⁷ And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled. ²⁸ "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, demanding, 'Pay me what you owe me!' ²⁹ "And his fellow-slave fell down before him and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.' ³⁰ But he refused and went out and had him put in jail until he should pay the debt. ³¹ "When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly troubled, and went and reported all that happened to their master. ³² Then his master called to him, and said, 'I cancelled all that huge debt of yours, because you pleaded with me to do so. ³³ Ought you not to have shown mercy to your fellow-slave, as I too had done for you?' ³⁴ And the master was enraged and turned him over to the official torturers, until he should pay the whole debt. ³⁵ This is the way my heavenly Father too will deal with you, if you do not, each one, heartily forgive your brother." ¹⁹ ¹ When Jesus had finished this discourse, He left Galilee and went into the district of Judea that is on the other side of the Jordan. ² And great crowds thronged after Him, and He cured them there.