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Matthew 15

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1Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

2“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

3He answered them, “Why do you also transgress God’s commandment because of your tradition?

4For God said, ‘Honor father and mother,’ and ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

5But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might receive from me is a gift,”

6will certainly not honor his father.’ You have thus nullified the word of God because of your tradition.

7Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well about you, saying,

8‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

9In vain they worship Me, teaching human commandments as teachings.’”

10He summoned the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand:

11what enters the mouth does not defile a person, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a person.”

12Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees stumbled when they heard this saying?”

13He answered, “Every plant that My heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

14Leave them; they are blind guides of the blind. If a blind person guides a blind person, both will fall into a pit.”

15Peter answered Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

16He said, “Are you also still without understanding?

17Do you not understand that everything entering the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

18But the things coming out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile a person.

19For out of the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and blasphemies.

20These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”

21Jesus went out from there and withdrew to the regions of Tyre and Sidon.

22And behold, a Canaanite woman from those territories came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is terribly oppressed by a demon.”

23But He did not answer her a word. His disciples came and asked Him, “Dismiss her, because she is crying out behind us.”

24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

25She came and bowed before Him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

26He answered, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

27She said, “Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat from the crumbs falling from their masters’ table.”

28Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it happen for you as you wish.” Her daughter was healed from that hour.

29Moving on from there, Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee. He went up the mountain and sat there.

30Great crowds came to Him, bringing with them mute, blind, lame, maimed, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He healed them,

31so that the crowd marveled when they saw mute people speaking, maimed people healthy, lame people walking, and blind people seeing. They glorified the God of Israel.

32Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I am moved with compassion for the crowd, because they have already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to dismiss them fasting, lest they faint on the road.”

33The disciples said to Him, “Where can we get so many loaves in a deserted place, enough to fill so great a crowd?”

34Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

35He instructed the crowd to recline on the ground,

36took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

37They all ate and were filled, and they took up the surplus fragments: seven large baskets full.

38Those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children.

39After dismissing the crowds, He entered the boat and came to the territory of Magadan.

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