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    "content": "Matthew, Chapter 15 — 39 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Matthew 15 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying:",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said:",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that are lost of the house of Israel.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee: and going up into a mountain, he sat there.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk, the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the people.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 37,
      "text": "And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:37 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 38,
      "text": "And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children and women.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:38 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 39,
      "text": "And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and came into the coasts of Magedan.",
      "citation": "Matthew 15:39 (Douay-Rheims)"
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