LO - Matthew - 15

15:1  Then some Scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem addressed him, saying,

15:2  Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders; for they was not their hands before meals.

15:3  Jesus answering, saud to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God?

15:4  For God has commanded, saying, "Honor father and mother"; and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death."

15:5  But you affirm, If a man say to father or mother, I devote whatever of mine shall profit you,

15:6  he shall not afterward honor by his assistance , his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God.

15:7  Hypocrites, well do you suit the character which Isaiah gave of you, saying,

15:8  "This people honor me with their lips. though their heart is estranged from me.

15:9  But in vain they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human."

15:10  Then, having called the multitude, he said to them, Hear, and be instructed.

15:11  It is not what goes into the mouth pollutes the man; but it is what proceeds out of the mouth, that pollutes the man.

15:12  On which his disciples accosting him, said, Did you observe how the Pharisees, when they heard that saying were offended?

15:13  He answered, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be extirpated.

15:14  Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

15:15  Then Peter addressing him, said, Explain to us that parable.

15:16  Jesus answered, Are you also void of understanding?

15:17  Do you not apprehend, that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach, and is thrown out into the sink.

15:18  But that which proceeds out of the mouth, issues from the heart, and so pollutes the man.

15:19  For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

15:20  These are the things which pollute the man; but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not the man.

15:21  Then Jesus withdrew into the confines of Tyre and Sidon;

15:22  and behold! a Canaanitish woman of these territories came to him, crying, Master, Son of David, have pity on me; my daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon.

15:23  But he gave her no answer. Then his disciples interposed, and entreated him, saying, Dismiss her, for she clamors after us.

15:24  He answering said, My mission is only to the lost sheep of the stock of Israel.

15:25  She, nevertheless, advanced, and prostrating herself before him, said, O Lord, help me.

15:26  He replied, It is not seemly to take the children's bread, and throw it to the dogs.

15:27  True, Sir, returned she. Yet even the dogs are allowed the crumbs which fall from their master's table.

15:28  Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman! great is your faith. Be it to you as you desire. And that instant her daughter was healed.

15:29  Jesus having left that place, came nigh to the sea of Galilee, and repaired to a mountain, where he sat down;

15:30  and great multitudes flocked to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the dumb, the cripple, and several others, whom they laid at his feet; and he healed them:

15:31  insomuch that the people beheld, with admiration, the dumb speaking, the cripple sound, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

15:32  Then Jesus called to him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude because they have now attended me three days, and have nothing to eat; I will not dismiss them fasting, lest they faint by the way.

15:33  His disciples answered, Whence can we get bread enough, in the solitude, to satisfy such a crowd?

15:34  He asked them, How many loaves have you? They said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

15:35  Then commanding the people to recline upon the ground,

15:36  he took the seven loaves and the fishes, which, having given thanks, he divided and gave to his disciples, who distributed them among the people.

15:37  When all had eat, and were satisfied, they carried off seven hand-baskets full of the fragments that remained.

15:38  Now they that had eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.

15:39  Then having dismissed the multitude, he embarked, and sailed to the coast of Magdala.