He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

He told him, “See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

Then he directed them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.

Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.