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      "v": 1,
      "text": "Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,"
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”"
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "He answered them,"
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "“Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?",
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’",
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’",
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”",
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      "v": 6,
      "text": "he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.",
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      "v": 7,
      "text": "You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,",
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      "v": 8,
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      "text": "‘These people draw near to me with their mouth,",
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      "v": 8,
      "text": "and honor me with their lips;",
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      "v": 8,
      "text": "but their heart is far from me.",
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      "v": 9,
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      "v": 9,
      "text": "teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”",
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      "v": 10,
      "text": "He summoned the multitude, and said to them,"
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      "v": 10,
      "text": "“Hear, and understand.",
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”",
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      "v": 12,
      "text": "Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”"
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "But he answered,"
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "“Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.",
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”",
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      "v": 15,
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      "v": 15,
      "text": "Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”"
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      "v": 16,
      "text": "So Jesus said,"
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      "v": 16,
      "text": "“Do you also still not understand?",
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?",
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.",
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.",
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”",
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      "v": 1,
      "text": "Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,"
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."
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      "v": 3,
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "But he answered and said unto them,"
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?",
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.",
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;",
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    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.",
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      "v": 7,
      "text": "Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,",
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      "v": 8,
      "break": "q1"
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      "v": 8,
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      "v": 8,
      "text": "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.",
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      "text": "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.",
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      "v": 10,
      "text": "And he called the multitude, and said unto them,"
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      "text": "Hear, and understand:",
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.",
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      "v": 12,
      "text": "Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "But he answered and said,"
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.",
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.",
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      "text": "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable."
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      "text": "And Jesus said,"
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      "text": "Are ye also yet without understanding?",
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?",
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      "text": "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.",
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      "text": "These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.",
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          "v": 14,
          "text": "\"If you fast, you'll bring guilt upon yourselves; and if you pray, you'll be condemned; and if you make donations, you'll harm your spirits. If they welcome you when you enter any land and go around in the countryside, heal those who are sick among them and eat whatever they give you, because it's not what goes into your mouth that will defile you. What comes out of your mouth is what will defile you.\"",
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          "text": "Jesus said,"
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