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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 15 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/matthew/15.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</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 come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, 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>And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because 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, He that speaketh evil of 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, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he shall not honour his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of 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 honoureth 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 do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts 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 to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when 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 planted not, shall be rooted up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us the parable. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth 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 the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of 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 come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>these are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the 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>And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. <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 was not sent but unto 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 worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that 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 thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at his feet; and he healed them: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing: 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>And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place, as to fill so great a multitude? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he commanded the multitude 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 fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/15-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside 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 multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<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="/scan/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 width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>