Bible Verses

For God commanded: Do your duty to your father and your mother, and whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Jesus answered: “And you, why do you violate God’s command for the sake of your traditions?

“Why don’t your disciples follow the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands before eating.”

On Tradition Later, some Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. They said to him:

begging him to let them touch just the hem of his cloak. Everyone who touched it was healed.

The local people recognized Jesus and spread the word throughout the region. They brought all the sick to him,

Healings in Gennesaret They arrived ashore at Gennesaret.

Then those in the boat bowed down before Jesus, saying: “Truly, you are the Son of God!”

As they stepped into the boat, the wind died down.

Jesus immediately extended his hand and grasped him, saying: “Man of little faith, why did you doubt?”