mnt - Matthew:15

mnt@Matthew:15:1 @ Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

mnt@Matthew:15:2 @ "Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

mnt@Matthew:15:3 @ "And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

mnt@Matthew:15:4 @ "For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

mnt@Matthew:15:5 @ but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,

mnt@Matthew:15:6 @ is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

mnt@Matthew:15:7 @ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying.

mnt@Matthew:15:8 @ This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

mnt@Matthew:15:9 @ In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."

mnt@Matthew:15:10 @ Then Jesus called the people to him and said.

mnt@Matthew:15:11 @ "Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a mans mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."

mnt@Matthew:15:12 @ Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.

mnt@Matthew:15:13 @ "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

mnt@Matthew:15:14 @ "Let them alone. They are blind men leading the blind; and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

mnt@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us."

mnt@Matthew:15:16 @ He answered. "Are even you still without understanding?

mnt@Matthew:15:17 @ "Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

mnt@Matthew:15:18 @ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart - and that is what defiles a man.

mnt@Matthew:15:19 @ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

mnt@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things that defile a man; to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

mnt@Matthew:15:21 @ Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

mnt@Matthew:15:22 @ Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

mnt@Matthew:15:23 @ But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

mnt@Matthew:15:24 @ In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

mnt@Matthew:15:25 @ But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me."

mnt@Matthew:15:26 @ He answered, "It is not seemly to take the childrens bread and throw it to the little dogs."

mnt@Matthew:15:27 @ "True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters table."

mnt@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.

mnt@Matthew:15:29 @ On leaving that place Jesus went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and after climbing a hill, took his seat there.

mnt@Matthew:15:30 @ Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them;

mnt@Matthew:15:31 @ so that the crowd wondered when they saw the dumb speaking, the cripples walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

mnt@Matthew:15:32 @ But Jesus called his disciples to him and said. "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

mnt@Matthew:15:33 @ "In a lonely place like this," asked the disciple. "where can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

mnt@Matthew:15:34 @ "How many loaves have you?" answered Jesus. They replied, "Seven, and a few small fish.

mnt@Matthew:15:35 @ So when he had summoned the crowd, and seated them upon the ground,

mnt@Matthew:15:36 @ he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, then he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

mnt@Matthew:15:37 @ And all ate and were satisfied, and of the fragments that remained they gathered seven large basketfuls.

mnt@Matthew:15:38 @ And those who ate numbered four thousand, besides the women and children.

mnt@Matthew:15:39 @ When he had sent the crowds away, he got into the boat and came into the region of Magadan.