Thematic Bible
Matthew 15:1 (show verse)
Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,
Matthew 15:2 (show verse)
"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"
Matthew 15:3 (show verse)
"And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.
Matthew 15:4 (show verse)
"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;
Matthew 15:5 (show verse)
but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, 'Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,'
Matthew 15:6 (show verse)
is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!
Matthew 15:7 (show verse)
Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying.
Matthew 15:8 (show verse)
This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9 (show verse)
In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."
Matthew 15:10 (show verse)
Then Jesus called the people to him and said:
Matthew 15:11 (show verse)
"Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."
Matthew 15:12 (show verse)
Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.
Matthew 15:13 (show verse)
"Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
Matthew 15:14 (show verse)
"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."
Matthew 15:15 (show verse)
Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us."
Matthew 15:16 (show verse)
He answered. "Are even you still without understanding?
Matthew 15:17 (show verse)
"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;
Matthew 15:18 (show verse)
while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart??nd that is what defiles a man.
Matthew 15:19 (show verse)
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.
Matthew 15:20 (show verse)
These are the things that defile a man; to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
Matthew 15:21 (show verse)
Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew 15:22 (show verse)
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."
Matthew 15:23 (show verse)
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."
Matthew 15:24 (show verse)
In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matthew 15:25 (show verse)
But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me."
Matthew 15:26 (show verse)
He answered, "It is not seemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."
Matthew 15:27 (show verse)
"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
Matthew 15:28 (show verse)
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.
Matthew 15:29 (show verse)
On leaving that place Jesus went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and after climbing a hill, took his seat there.
Matthew 15:30 (show verse)
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;
Matthew 15:31 (show verse)
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.
Matthew 15:32 (show verse)
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."
Matthew 15:33 (show verse)
"In a lonely place like this," asked the disciple. "where can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"
Matthew 15:34 (show verse)
"How many loaves have you?" answered Jesus. They replied, "Seven, and a few small fish.
Matthew 15:35 (show verse)
So when he had summoned the crowd, and seated them upon the ground,
Matthew 15:36 (show verse)
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.
Matthew 15:37 (show verse)
And all ate and were satisfied, and of the fragments that remained they gathered seven large basketfuls.
Matthew 15:38 (show verse)
And those who ate numbered four thousand, besides the women and children.
Matthew 15:39 (show verse)
When he had sent the crowds away, he got into the boat and came into the region of Magadan.