Geneva1599 - Matthew - 15

15:1  Then came to Iesus the Scribes and Pharises, which were of Hierusalem, saying,

15:2  Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? for they wash not their hands when they eate bread.

15:3  But he answered and said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commandement of God by your tradition?

15:4  For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

15:5  But ye say, Whosoeuer shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,

15:6  Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commandement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

15:7  O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

15:8  This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me.

15:9  But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.

15:10  Then hee called the multitude vnto him, and said to them, Heare and vnderstand.

15:11  That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

15:12  Then came his disciples, and saide vnto him, Perceiuest thou not, that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying?

15:13  But hee answered and saide, Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.

15:14  Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.

15:15  Then answered Peter, and said to him, Declare vnto vs this parable.

15:16  Then said Iesus, Are ye yet without vnderstanding?

15:17  Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?

15:18  But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

15:19  For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

15:20  These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

15:21  And Iesus went thence, and departed into the coastes of Tyrus and Sidon.

15:22  And beholde, a woman a Cananite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying vnto him, Haue mercie on me, O Lord, the sonne of Dauid: my daughter is miserably vexed with a deuil.

15:23  But hee answered her not a worde. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Sende her away, for she crieth after vs.

15:24  But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.

15:25  Yet she came, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me.

15:26  And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.

15:27  But she said, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes, which fall from their masters table.

15:28  Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was made whole at that houre.

15:29  So Iesus went away from thence, and came neere vnto the sea of Galile, and went vp into a mountaine and sate downe there.

15:30  And great multitudes came vnto him, hauing with them, halt, blinde, dumme, maymed, and many other, and cast them downe at Iesus feete, and he healed them.

15:31  In so much that the multitude wondered, to see the dumme speake, the maimed whole, the halt to goe, and the blinde to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

15:32  Then Iesus called his disciples vnto him, and said, I haue compassion on this multitude, because they haue continued with mee already three dayes, and haue nothing to eate: and I wil not let them depart fasting, least they faint in the way.

15:33  And his disciples saide vnto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude!

15:34  And Iesus said vnto them, How many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen, and a few litle fishes.

15:35  Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the ground,

15:36  And tooke the seuen loaues, and the fishes, and gaue thankes, and brake them, and gaue to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

15:37  And they did all eate, and were sufficed: and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, seuen baskets full.

15:38  And they that had eaten, were foure thousand men, beside women, and litle children.

15:39  Then Iesus sent away the multitude, and tooke ship, and came into the partes of Magdala.