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Today's Readings
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Sunday, 31st March 2024 --- 22 Baramhat 1740
Vespers Gospel
Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel.
A reading from the Gospel according to our teacher Saint Matthew the Evangelist.
May His Blessings be with us all.
Matthew 15 : 1 - 20
Chapter 15
| 1 | Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,
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| 2 | "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
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| 3 | He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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| 4 | For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and your mother'; and, "He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'
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| 5 | But you say, "Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God"--
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| 6 | then he need not honor his father or mother.' Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
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| 7 | Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
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| 8 | "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.
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| 9 | And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."'
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| 10 | When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand:
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| 11 | Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
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| 12 | Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
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| 13 | But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
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| 14 | Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."
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| 15 | Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."
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| 16 | So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?
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| 17 | Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
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| 18 | But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
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| 19 | For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
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| 20 | These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
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And Glory be to God forever.
Acknowledgement
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