Matthew 15
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What Makes People Unclean?
1Some Pharisees and teachers of the law came from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They complained, 2“Why don’t your disciples follow what the elders teach? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
3Jesus answered, “Why don’t you follow God’s commands instead of your own teachings? 4God said, ‘Honor your father and mother.’ God also said, ‘Anyone who asks for bad things to happen to their father or mother must be put to death.’ 5Suppose someone has money they could use to help their parents. You tell them they can say it’s ‘a gift set apart only for God.’ 6Then they don’t need to use that money to honor their father or mother. If the word of God clashes with your own teachings, you say it doesn’t apply. 7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you,
8“ ‘These people honor me with their mouths,
but their hearts are far away from me.
9It’s useless for them to worship me,
because they’re teaching only human rules.’ ”
10Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. 11What goes into a person’s mouth doesn’t make them unclean. What comes out of their mouth does.”
12Then the disciples came to him and said, “Did you know that the Pharisees got angry when they heard that?”
13Jesus replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father hasn’t planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14Don’t worry about the Pharisees. They’re blind guides. If one blind person leads another, they’ll both fall into a pit.”
15Peter asked, “But what did you mean by what you said?”
16“Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus replied. 17“Don’t you see? Everything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and from there it goes out of the body. 18But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart. Those are the things that make someone unclean. 19Out of a person’s heart come cruel thoughts, murder, adultery, other sexual sins, stealing, false testimony, and lies. 20Those are the things that make you unclean. But eating without washing your hands doesn’t make you unclean.”
The Faith of a Canaanite Woman
21Jesus left Galilee and went to the area of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Canaanite woman who lived near there came to him and cried out, “Lord! Son of David! Have mercy on me! A demon has been controlling my daughter and making her suffer terribly.”
23Jesus didn’t say a word. So his disciples came and begged him, “Tell her to go away! She keeps following us and crying out for help.”
24Jesus answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
25Then the woman fell on her knees in front of him. “Lord! Help me!” she said.
26He replied, “It’s not right to take the children’s bread and throw it out to the dogs.”
27“That’s true, Lord,” she said, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their owner’s table.”
28Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! You will receive what you’ve asked for.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
Jesus Feeds Four Thousand
29Jesus left there and walked along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. 30Large crowds came to him, bringing people who were blind, who couldn’t walk, who were disabled, who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them. Those who couldn’t speak started speaking, those with disabilities were made well, those who couldn’t walk started walking, and those who were blind became able to see. 31The people were amazed when they saw all this, and they praised the God of Israel.
32Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I’m concerned for these people because they’ve already been with me for three days and they’ve run out of food to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, because if I do, they may be too weak to make it back home.”
33His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread to feed this large crowd? We’re in the middle of nowhere.”
34“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.
“Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”
35Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. 36Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to the disciples. They passed them out to the people. 37Everyone ate as much as they wanted, and after that, the disciples picked up seven full baskets of leftover pieces. 38Just counting the men, they fed about 4,000 people, and there were many women and children as well. 39Jesus sent the crowd away, and then he got into the boat and went to the area near Magadan.
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Matthew 15
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CHAPTER 15
1Then the scribes and the Pharisees came to him from Jerusalem, and said,
2Why break thy disciples the traditions of elder men? [or Why thy disciples break the traditions, either the teachings, of elder men?] for they wash not their hands, when they eat bread.
3He answered, and said to them, Why break ye the commandment of God for your tradition[s]?
4For God said, Honour thy father and thy mother, and he that curseth father or mother, die he by death.
5But ye say, Whoever saith to father or mother, Whatever gift is of me, it shall profit to thee;
6and he hath not worshipped [or not honoured] his father or his mother; and ye have made the commandment of God void for your tradition[s].
7Hypocrites, Isaiah the prophet, prophesied well of you, and said,
8This people honoureth me with lips, but their heart is far from me;
9and they worship me without cause, teaching the doctrines and the commandments of men.
10And when the people were called together to him, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand ye.
11That thing that entereth into the mouth, defouleth not a man; but that thing that cometh out of the mouth, defouleth a man.
12Then his disciples came, and said to him, Thou knowest [or Knowest thou], that, if this word be heard, the Pharisees be offended?
13And he answered, and said, Every planting, that my Father of heaven hath not planted, shall be drawn up by the root.
14Suffer ye them; they be blind, and leaders of blind men. And if a blind man lead a blind man, both fall into the ditch.
15Peter answered, and said to him, Expound to us this parable.
16And he said, Yet ye be without understanding?
17Understand ye not, that all thing that entereth into the mouth, goeth into the womb, and is sent out into the going away?
18But those things that come forth from the mouth, go out from the heart, and those things defoul the man.
19For of the heart go out evil thoughts [or For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts], manslayings, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies.
20These things it be that defoul a man; but to eat with hands not washed, defouleth not a man.
21And Jesus went out from thence, and went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22And lo! a woman of Canaan went out of those coasts, and cried, and said to him, Lord, the son of David, have mercy on me; my daughter is evil travailed of a fiend [or a devil].
23And he answered not to her a word. And his disciples came, and prayed him, and said, Leave thou her, for she crieth after us.
24He answered, and said, I am not sent, but to the sheep of the house of Israel that have perished.
25And she came, and worshipped him, and said, Lord, help me.
26Which answered, and said, It is not good to take the bread of children, and cast [it] to hounds.
27And she said, Yes, Lord; for [the] whelps eat of the crumbs, that fall down from the board of their lords.
28Then Jesus answered, and said to her, A! woman, thy faith is great; be it done to thee, as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29And when Jesus had passed from thence, he came beside the sea of Galilee. And he went up into an hill, and sat there.
30And much people came to him, and had with them dumb men and crooked [men], feeble and blind, and many others; and they casted down them [or cast them down] at his feet. And he healed them,
31so that the people wondered, seeing dumb men speaking, and crooked [men] going, blind men seeing; and they magnified God of Israel.
32And Jesus, when his disciples were called together, said to them, I have ruth of the people, for they have abided now three days with me, and have nothing to eat; and I will not leave them fasting, lest they fail in the way.
33And the disciples say to him, Whereof then so many loaves among us in desert, to fulfill so great a people? [And the disciples say to him, Therefore whereof so many loaves to us in desert, that we fill so great a company of people?]
34And Jesus said to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes [or a few little fishes].
35And he commanded to the people, to sit to [the] meat on the earth.
36And he took the seven loaves and five fishes, and did thankings, and brake them, and gave to his disciples; and the disciples gave to the people.
37And all ate, and were fulfilled [or were filled], and they took that that was left of [the] remnants, seven baskets full.
38And they that ate were four thousand of men, without little children and women.
39And when he had left the people, he went up into a boat, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
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