CINXE.COM

<!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 WBT</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><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="../">WBT</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">Webster Bible Translation</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 came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, who were of Jerusalem, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But he answered and said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</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>And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then came his disciples, and said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be extirpated. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then answered Peter and said to him, Declare to us this parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do ye not yet understand, that whatever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.</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>Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the territories of Tyre and Sidon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same territories, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously afflicted with a demon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crums which fall from their master's table. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that very hour.</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>And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh to the sea of Galilee; and ascended a mountain, and sat down there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And great multitudes came to him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus saith to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he commanded the multitude to sit 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 fishes, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. <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 of the fragments that were left seven baskets full. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And they that had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And he sent away the multitude, and took a boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 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 /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>