Matthew 15

Godbey^{(i) 1} Then the scribes and Pharisees, who are from Jerusalem, come to Jesus, saying, ² Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ And responding He said to them; Wherefore do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die with death. ⁵ But you say, Whosoever may say to father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever you may be profited by me; and he shall no longer honor his father or his mother. ⁶ You made void the commandment of God by your tradition. ⁷ Ye hypocrites, beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying, ⁸ This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁹ But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ¹⁰ And calling the multitude to Him, He said to them, Hear and understand: ¹¹ That if which cometh into the mouth does not defile the man; but that which cometh out from the mouth, that defiles the man. ¹² Then His disciples having come to Him say, Do you not know that the Pharisees hearing your word, were offended? ¹³ And He responding said, Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant, shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone: the blind are leaders of the blind: if the blind may lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. ¹⁵ Peter responding said to Him, Explain unto us the parable. ¹⁶ And Jesus said, Are you indeed still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you know that everything entering into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into excrement? ¹⁸ But those things going out from the mouth come forth from the heart; and these pollute the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things which defile the man: but to eat bread with unwashed hands does not defile the man. ²¹ And Jesus having come out thence, departed into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And behold, a Canaanitish woman having come out from those coasts, cried unto Him saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is terribly demonized. ²³ And He responded to her not a word; and His disciples, having come to Him, asked Him, saying, Send her away; because she cries after us. ²⁴ And He responding said, I am not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ²⁵ And having come she continued to worship Him, saying, Lord, assist me. ²⁶ He responding said, It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs. ²⁷ And she said, Yea, Lord: for the little dogs eat of the crumbs falling from their master's table. ²⁸ Then Jesus responding said to her, O woman, great is thy faith; let it be done unto thee as thou dost wish. And her daughter was healed from that hour. ²⁹ And Jesus having departed thence, came to the Sea of Galilee; and having gone up into the mountain, He was sitting there. ³⁰ And many multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deaf, the maimed, and many others, and laid them down at the feet of Jesus; and He healed them: ³¹ so that the multitudes were astonished, seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking about, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel. ³² And Jesus calling His disciples to Him, said, I sympathize with the multitude, because already three days abide unto me, and they have nothing which they may eat; I do not wish to send them away fasting, lest they may faint on the road. ³³ And His disciples say to Him, Whence is there to us so much bread in the wilderness, as to feed so great a multitude? ³⁴ And Jesus says to them; How much bread have ye? And they said, Seven loaves and a few fishes. ³⁵ He having commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground, ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fishes; having given thanks, He broke them, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. ³⁷ And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up the residue of fragments, seven baskets full. ³⁸ And those eating were about tour thousand men, besides women and children. ³⁹ And having sent away the multitudes, He went into a ship and came into the coasts of Magdala.