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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Literal Standard Version</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" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/matthew/15-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then they come to Jesus from Jerusalem—scribes and Pharisees—saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And He answering said to them, “Why also do you transgress the command of God because of your tradition? <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but you say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering [is] whatever you may be profited by me— <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and he may not honor his father or his mother, and you set aside the command of God because of your tradition. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it honors Me, but their heart is far off from Me;<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and in vain they worship Me, teaching teachings—commands of men.”<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And having called near the multitude, He said to them, “Hear and understand: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>[it is] not that which is coming into the mouth [that] defiles the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defiles the man.”<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then His disciples having come near, said to Him, “Have You known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And He answering said, “Every plant that My heavenly Father did not plant will be rooted up; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>leave them alone, they are guides—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both will fall into a ditch.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Peter answering said to Him, “Explain to us this allegory.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jesus said, “Are you also yet without understanding? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you not understand that all that is going into the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast forth into the drain? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the things coming forth from the mouth come forth from the heart, and these defile the man; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, slanders: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Jesus having come forth from there, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those borders, called to Him, saying, “Deal kindly with me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And He did not answer her a word; and His disciples having come to Him, were asking Him, saying, “Let her away, because she cries after us”; <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and He answering said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And having come, she was worshiping Him, saying, “Lord, help me”; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and He answering said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast to the little dogs.” <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And she said, “Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords’ table”; <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>then answering, Jesus said to her, “O woman, great [is] your faith, let it be to you as you will”; and her daughter was healed from that hour.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And having departed from there, Jesus came near to the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, He was sitting there, <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and there came to Him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they cast them at the feet of Jesus, and He healed them, <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>so that the multitudes wondered, seeing mute ones speaking, maimed whole, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And Jesus having called near His disciples, said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because now three days they continue with Me, and they do not have what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.” <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And His disciples say to Him, “From where to us in a wilderness [will we get] so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?” <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few little fishes.” <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the ground, <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, He broke, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples [gave] to the multitude. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they all ate, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full, <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And having let away the multitudes, He went into the boat, and came to the borders of Magdala.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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