Worsley - Matthew - 15

15:1  Then came to Jesus the scribes and pharisees from Jerusalem saying,

15:2  Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat.

15:3  But He answered and said unto them, And why do ye transgress the commandment of God for your tradition?

15:4  For God commanded saying, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that revileth father or mother, let him be put to death:

15:5  but ye say, If any man say to his father or mother, "that which thou mightest be profited by from me is a gift to the temple,"

15:6  and so honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. And thus have ye made void the commandment of God by your tradition.

15:7  Well did Esaias prophecy concerning you,

15:8  saying, This people approach me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me:

15:9  but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.

15:10  And He called the multitude to Him, and said unto them, Hear and understand it:

15:11  not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this polluteth the man.

15:12  Whereupon his disciples came and said to Him, Dost thou know that the pharisees, when they heard this assertion, were offended at it?

15:13  But He answered and said, Every plantation which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.

15:14  Regard them not; for they are blind guides of the blind: and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

15:15  Then Peter answered, and said unto Him, Explain to us this parable.

15:16  And Jesus replied, Are ye also still void of understanding?

15:17  Do ye not yet know, that whatever goeth into the mouth passeth to the belly and is discharged downwards?

15:18  But the things, which proceed out of the mouth, come from the heart, and those defile a man.

15:19  For out of the heart proceed wicked disputings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, slanders:

15:20  these defile a man, but to eat without washing the hands doth not defile him.

15:21  And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the parts adjacent to Tyre and Sidon.

15:22  And there came out of those quarters a Canaanitish woman, and cried to Him saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; for my daughter is grievously tormented by a demon.

15:23  But he answered her not a word: and his disciples came and intreated Him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth importunately after us.

15:24  But he answered and said, I am sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

15:25  However, she came and worshipped Him, saying, Lord help me.

15:26  But he answered, It is not fit to take the children's bread and throw it to dogs: and she said, True, Lord;

15:27  yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

15:28  Then Jesus answering, said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it therefore unto thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was cured from that very hour.

15:29  And Jesus departed from thence, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and going up to a mountain He sat down there.

15:30  And great multitudes came to Him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others; and laid them at the feet of Jesus, and He healed them.

15:31  So that the people wondered when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed become sound, the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.

15:32  Then Jesus called his disciples to Him and said, I am moved with compassion to the multitude, for they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: I will not let them go away fasting, least they faint in the way.

15:33  And his disciples replied, Whence can we have so much bread in this desert place as to satisfy so great a multitude?

15:34  And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? and they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

15:35  Then He bid the people sit down on the ground;

15:36  and taking the seven loaves and the fishes, when He had given thanks, He brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

15:37  And they did all eat, and were satisfied: and they took up what was left even of fragments seven baskets full.

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

15:39  Then he dismissed the multitudes, and went into a ship, and came to the coasts of Magdala.