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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 15 WEY</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEY</a> > Matthew 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/14.htm" title="Matthew 14">◄</a> Matthew 15 <a href="../matthew/16.htm" title="Matthew 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Weymouth New testament</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Tradition and Vain Worship<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/7.htm">Mark 7:1-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then there came to Jesus a party of Pharisees and Scribes from Jerusalem, who inquired, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>"Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death'; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but you—this is what you say: 'If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me— <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hypocrites! well did Isaiah prophesy of you,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"'This is a People who honour Me with their lips, while their heart is far away from Me;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'"</p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">What Defiles a Man<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/7.htm#14">Mark 7:14-23</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, "Hear and understand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth—*that* defiles a man."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"Every plant," He replied, "which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into some pit."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>"Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile."</p> <a name="21" id="21"></a><p class="hdg">The Faith of the Canaanite Woman<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/7.htm#24">Mark 7:24-30</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew into the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Here a Canaanitish woman of the district came out and persistently cried out, "Sir, Son of David, pity me; my daughter is cruelly harassed by a demon." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But He answered her not a word. Then the disciples interposed, and begged Him, saying, "Send her away because she keeps crying behind us." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>"I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," He replied. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. "O Sir, help me," she said. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>"It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>"O woman," replied Jesus, "great is your faith: be it done to you as you desire." And from that moment her daughter was restored to health.</p> <a name="29" id="29"></a><p class="hdg">The Feeding of the Four Thousand<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/8.htm">Mark 8:1-10</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Again, moving thence, Jesus went along by the Lake of Galilee; and ascending the hill, He sat down there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Soon great crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were crippled in feet or hands, blind or dumb, and many besides, and they hastened to lay them at His feet. And He cured them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>so that the people were amazed to see the dumb speaking, the maimed with their hands perfect, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they gave the glory to the God of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>"Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>"How many loaves have you?" Jesus asked. "Seven," they said, "and a few small fish." <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So He bade all the people sit down on the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and He took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks He broke them up and then distributed them to the disciples, and they to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they all ate and were satisfied. The broken portions that remained over they took up—seven full hampers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Those who ate were 4,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>He then dismissed the people, went on board the boat, and came into the district of Magadan.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/matthew/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>