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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 Amplified Bible</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/matthew/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Tradition and Commandment</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus and said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Why do Your disciples violate the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>tradition (religious laws) handed down by the [Jewish] elders? For Your disciples do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before they eat.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He replied to them, “Why also do you violate the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For God said [through Moses], ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,’ and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF <i>or</i> INSULTS <i>or</i> TREATS IMPROPERLY FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given <i>to God,”</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he is not to honor his father or his mother [by helping them with their need].’ So by this you have invalidated the word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect] for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, <t><p class="indent1">BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, <t><p class="indent1">FOR THEY TEACH AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said, “Listen and understand <i>this:</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that defiles <i>and</i> dishonors him, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles <i>and</i> dishonors him.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the disciples came and said to Jesus, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard <i>you say</i> this?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He answered, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be torn up by the roots. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Leave them alone; they are blind guides <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>[leading blind followers]. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” <p class="hdg">The Heart of Man</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Peter asked Him, “Explain this parable [about what defiles a person] to us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He said, “Are you still so dull [and unable to put things together]? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But whatever [word] comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this is what defiles <i>and</i> dishonors the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For out of the heart come evil thoughts <i>and</i> plans, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders (verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming). <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>These are the things which defile <i>and</i> dishonor the man; but eating with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not defile the man.” <p class="hdg">The Syrophoenician Woman</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>After leaving there, Jesus withdrew to the district of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Tyre and Sidon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>Canaanite woman from that district came out and <i>began</i> to cry out [urgently], saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David (Messiah); my daughter is cruelly possessed by a demon.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But He did not say a word in answer to her. And His disciples came and asked Him [repeatedly], “Send her away, because she keeps shouting out after us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He answered, “I was commissioned by God <i>and</i> sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But she came and <i>began</i> to kneel down before Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And He replied, “It is not good (appropriate, fair) to take the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>children’s bread and throw it to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>pet dogs.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>She said, “Yes, Lord; but even the pet dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their [young] masters’ table.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, your faith [your personal trust and confidence in My power] is great; it will be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that moment. <p class="hdg">Healing Crowds</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jesus went on from there and passed along by [the eastern shore of] the Sea of Galilee. Then He went up on the hillside and was sitting there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And great crowds came to Him, bringing with them the lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they put them down at His feet; and He healed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they praised <i>and</i> glorified the God of Israel. <p class="hdg">Four Thousand Fed</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and have nothing [left] to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, because they might faint [from exhaustion] on the way [home].” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The disciples said to Him, “Where are we to get enough bread in this isolated place to feed so large a crowd?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus asked them, “How many loaves [of bread] do you have?” They replied, “Seven, and a few small fish.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He directed the crowd to 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 when He had given thanks, He broke them and started giving them to the disciples, and the disciples [gave them] to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they all ate and were satisfied, and they gathered up seven full baskets of the broken pieces that were left over. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>[Among] those who ate were 4,000 men, not counting women and children. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Then Jesus sent the crowds away, got into the boat and went to the district of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>Magadan.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> I.e. the oral commentary on the Law, later codified as the Mishnah.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Later mss add <i>of the blind</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Tyre and Sidon were located along the Gentile coastal region of Phoenicia. Tyre was 35 miles and Sidon 60 miles north of Galilee.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> The Canaanites were ancient, pagan enemies of Israel.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> A reference for the Jewish people.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Jews used <i>kuon (dog)</i> as a derogatory term referring to Gentiles. This dog (<i>kuon)</i> was a despised, filthy, homeless street scavenger. When speaking with this woman, Jesus uses a word for “dog” (<i>kunarion)</i> that refers to a household pet. The use of the word <i>kunariois</i> by both Jesus and the woman reflects the tenderness and spiritual depth of this exchange. More importantly, it foreshadows the fact that Gentile believers would not be spiritually homeless, but would also be welcomed into God’s household as His children. The gracious response of the woman recorded in v 27 confirms that on some level she understands this.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> A small town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, between Tiberias and Capernaum.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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 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="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>