From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for October 8   
      
   Matthew Chapter 15   
      
   1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,   
      
   2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they   
   wash not their hands when they eat bread.   
      
   3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the   
   commandment of God by your tradition?   
      
   4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that   
   curseth father or mother, let him die the death.   
      
   5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a   
   gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;   
      
   6 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.   
      
   7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,   
      
   8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me   
   with their lips; but their heart is far from me.   
      
   9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the   
   commandments of men.   
      
   10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:   
      
   11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which   
   cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.   
      
   12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the   
   Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?   
      
   13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath   
   not planted, shall be rooted up.   
      
   14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind   
   lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.   
      
   15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.   
      
   16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?   
      
   17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth   
   goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?   
      
   18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the   
   heart; and they defile the man.   
      
   19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,   
   fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:   
      
   20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen   
   hands defileth not a man.   
      
   21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.   
      
   22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried   
   unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my   
   daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.   
      
   23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought   
   him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.   
      
   24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of   
   the house of Israel.   
      
   25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.   
      
   26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's   
   bread, and to cast it to dogs.   
      
   27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall   
   from their masters' table.   
      
   28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith:   
   be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from   
   that very hour.   
      
   29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of   
   Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.   
      
   30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were   
   lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus'   
   feet; and he healed them:   
      
   31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to   
   speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see:   
   and they glorified the God of Israel.   
      
   32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion   
   on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have   
   nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint   
   in the way.   
      
   33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread   
   in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?   
      
   34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said,   
   Seven, and a few little fishes.   
      
   35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.   
      
   36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and   
   brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.   
      
   37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken   
   meat that was left seven baskets full.   
      
   38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.   
      
   39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the   
   coasts of Magdala.   
      
   Matthew Chapter 16   
      
   1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him   
   that he would shew them a sign from heaven.   
      
   2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be   
   fair weather: for the sky is red.   
      
   3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red   
   and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but   
   can ye not discern the signs of the times?   
      
   4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there   
   shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And   
   he left them, and departed.   
      
   5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten   
   to take bread.   
      
   6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the   
   Pharisees and of the Sadducees.   
      
   7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have   
   taken no bread.   
      
   8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith,   
   why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?   
      
   9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five   
   thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?   
      
   10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets   
   ye took up?   
      
   11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you   
   concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees   
   and of the Sadducees?   
      
   12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven   
   of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.   
      
   13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his   
   disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?   
      
   14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias;   
   and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.   
      
   15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?   
      
   16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of   
   the living God.   
      
   17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon   
   Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my   
   Father which is in heaven.   
      
   18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I   
   will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.   
      
   19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and   
   whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and   
   whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.   
      
      
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