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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1Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem — scribes and Pharisees — saying,
2‘Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.’
3And he answering said to them, ‘Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?
4for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother — let him die the death;
5but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering [is] whatever thou mayest be profited by me; —
6and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
7‘Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;
9and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings — commands of men.’
10And having called near the multitude, he said to them, ‘Hear and understand:
11not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.’
12Then his disciples having come near, said to him, ‘Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?’
13And he answering said, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;
14let them alone, guides they are — blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.’
15And Peter answering said to him, ‘Explain to us this simile.’
16And Jesus said, ‘Are ye also yet without understanding?
17do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?
18but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;
19for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
20these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.’
21And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon,
22and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, ‘Deal kindly with me, Sir — Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.’
23And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying — ‘Let her away, because she crieth after us;’
24and he answering said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’
25And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, ‘Sir, help me;’
26and he answering said, ‘It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.’
27And she said, ‘Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;’
28then answering, Jesus said to her, ‘O woman, great [is] thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;’ and her daughter was healed from that hour.
29And Jesus having passed thence, came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, he was sitting there,
30and there came to him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they did cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them,
31so that the multitudes did wonder, seeing dumb ones speaking, maimed whole, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
32And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, ‘I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.’
33And his disciples say to him, ‘Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?’
34And Jesus saith to them, ‘How many loaves have ye?’ and they said, ‘Seven, and a few little fishes.’
35And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground,
36and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full,
38and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.
39And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.
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