The Good News According to Mattityahu, Chapter 15
{15:1} Then Perushim and [1>]Sofrim[<1] came to Yeshua from
Yerushalayim, saying, {15:2} "Why do your [2>]talmidim[<2] disobey the
tradition of the Zakenim? For they don't wash their hands when they
eat bread."
{15:3} He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the
[3>]mitzvah[<3] of God because of your tradition? {15:4} For God
commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks
evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' {15:5} But you
say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you
might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," {15:6}
he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the
[4>]mitzvah[<4] of God void because of your tradition. {15:7} You
hypocrites! Well did Yesha`yahu prophesy of you, saying,
{15:8} 'These people draw near to me with their mouth,
And honor me with their lips;
But their heart is far from me.
{15:9} But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"
{15:10} He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and
understand. {15:11} That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile
the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the
man."
{15:12} Then the [5>]talmidim[<5] came, and said to him, "Do you
know that the Perushim were offended, when they heard this saying?"
{15:13} But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father
didn't plant will be uprooted. {15:14} Leave them alone. They are
blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will
fall into a pit."
{15:15} Rock answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
{15:16} So Yeshua said, "Do you also still not understand? {15:17}
Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the
belly, and then out of the body? {15:18} But the things which proceed
out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
{15:19} For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
{15:20} These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with
unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
{15:21} Yeshua went out from there, and withdrew into the parts of
Tzor and Tzidon. {15:22} Behold, a Kana`ani woman came out from those
borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David!
My daughter is severely demonized!"
{15:23} But he answered her not a word.
His [6>]talmidim[<6] came and begged him, saying, "Send her away;
for she cries after us."
{15:24} But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep
of the house of Yisra'el."
{15:25} But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
{15:26} But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the
children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
{15:27} But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs
which fall from their masters' table."
{15:28} Then Yeshua answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it
done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that
hour.
{15:29} Yeshua departed there, and came near to the sea of the
Galil; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. {15:30} Great
multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute,
maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed
them, {15:31} so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute
speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing -- and they
glorified the God of Yisra'el.
{15:32} Yeshua summoned his [7>]talmidim[<7] and said, "I have
compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three
days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting,
or they might faint on the way."
{15:33} The [8>]talmidim[<8] said to him, "Where should we get so
many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?"
{15:34} Yeshua said to them, "How many loaves do you have?"
They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
{15:35} He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
{15:36} and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and
broke them, and gave to the [9>]talmidim[<9], and the
[10>]talmidim[<10] to the multitudes. {15:37} They all ate, and were
filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were
left over. {15:38} Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women
and children. {15:39} He sent away the multitudes, and entered into
the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.
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Footnotes:
[1] {15:1} scribes
[2] {15:2} disciples
[3] {15:3} commandment
[4] {15:6} commandment
[5] {15:12} disciples
[6] {15:23} disciples
[7] {15:32} disciples
[8] {15:33} disciples
[9] {15:36} disciples
[10] {15:36} disciples
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