Matthew 15

¹ Then, coming to Jesus from Jerusalem are Pharisees and scribes, saying, ² "Wherefore are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For they are not washing their hands whenever they may be eating bread." ³ Now He, answering, said to them, "Wherefore are you also transgressing the precept of God because of your tradition? ⁴ For God said, 'Honor father and mother,' and, 'He who is saying aught that is evil of father or mother, let him decease in death.' ⁵ Yet you are saying that 'Whoever may be saying to father or mother, "An approach present is whatsoever you may be benefited by me"', ⁶ by no means shall he be honoring his father. And you invalidate the word of God because of your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Ideally Isaiah prophesies concerning you, saying, ⁸ 'This people with their lips is honoring Me, Yet their heart is away at a distance from Me. ⁹ Yet in vain are they revering Me, Teaching for teachings the directions of men.'" ¹⁰ And, calling the throng to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand! ¹¹ Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man." ¹² Then, approaching, the disciples said to Him, "Are you aware that the Pharisees, at hearing the word, are snared? ¹³ Now He, answering, said, "Every plant which is not planted by My heavenly Father shall be uprooted. ¹⁴ Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind! Now if the blind should be guiding the blind, both shall be falling into a pit." ¹⁵ Now, answering, Peter said to Him, "Decipher for us the parable." ¹⁶ Yet He said, "Are you also unintelligent at this point? ¹⁷ Not as yet are you apprehending that everything that is going into the mouth is becoming the contents of the bowels, and is being evacuated into the latrine? ¹⁸ Now those things going out of the mouth, out of the heart are coming, and those things are contaminating a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart are coming wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, prostitutions, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies. ²⁰ These are those which are contaminating a man. Now to be eating with unwashed hands is not contaminating a man." ²¹ And, coming out thence, Jesus retires into parts of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And lo! a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those boundaries, cried, saying, "Be merciful to me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is evilly demonized." ²³ Yet He answered her not a word. And, approaching, His disciples asked Him, saying, "Dismiss her, for she is crying behind us." ²⁴ Now He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel." ²⁵ Yet she, coming, worships Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" ²⁶ Yet He, answering, said, "It is not ideal to be taking the children's bread and to be casting it to the puppies." ²⁷ Yet she said, "Yes, Lord! For the puppies also are eating of the scraps that are falling from their masters' table." ²⁸ Then, answering, Jesus said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it come to be with you as you are wanting." And healed was her daughter from that hour. ²⁹ And, proceeding thence, Jesus came beside the sea of Galilee. And, ascending into the mountain, He sat there. ³⁰ And there came to Him vast throngs, having with them the lame, the blind, the mute, the maimed, and many others. And they toss them at His feet, and he cures them, ³¹ so that the throng marvels, observing the mute speaking, the maimed sound, the lame walking and the blind observing. And they glorify the God of Israel. ³² Now Jesus, calling His disciples to Him, said, "I have compassion on the throng, for already three days they are remaining with Me, and they have nothing that they may be eating, and I am not willing to dismiss them fasting, lest at some time they may be fainting on the road." ³³ And the disciples are saying to Him, "From whence, in a wilderness, is so much bread for us, so as to satisfy so much of a throng? ³⁴ And Jesus is saying to them, "How many cakes of bread have you?" Now they said, "Seven, and a few small fishes." ³⁵ And, charging the throng to lean back on the earth, ³⁶ He took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes, and, giving thanks, He breaks them and gave them to the disciples, yet the disciples to the throngs. ³⁷ And they all ate and are satisfied. And of the superfluous fragments they pick up seven hampers full. ³⁸ Now those eating were about four thousand men, apart from women and little children. ³⁹ And, dismissing the throngs, He stepped into the ship and came into the boundaries of Magadan.