New Testament · Gospels and Acts

Matthew chapter 15

Then some and came to Jesus from and asked,“Why do your break the ? They don’t do the before they eat.”Jesus answered them, “And why do you break for the sake of your tradition?God said, ‘ your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who their father or mother must be put to death.’But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Whatever I might have used to help you is now ,’then they don’t need to honor their father at all. So you’ve for the sake of your tradition.! nailed it when he spoke about you:“These people honor me with their words, but their are completely distant from me.Their means nothing—they just teach as if they were God’s commands.”Then Jesus called the over and said, “Listen to this and :It’s not what goes into someone’s mouth that makes them . It’s what comes out of their mouth—that’s what makes them unclean.”Then the students came to him and said, “Do you realize the Pharisees were when they heard that?”Jesus answered, “Every that my didn’t plant will be pulled up by the roots.Ignore them. They’re people trying to lead other blind people. And if a blind person leads another blind person, they’ll both end up in a ditch.”Peter spoke up and said, “Explain that to us.”Jesus said, “Are you still either?Don’t you understand? Whatever goes into the mouth passes through the stomach and then gets .But what comes out of the mouth comes from the —and that’s what actually makes someone unclean.Because out of the heart come , murder, adultery, , theft, lying, and .These are the things that make someone unclean. But ? That doesn’t make anyone unclean.”Jesus left that area and to the region around .A from that region came out and kept crying, “, , ! My daughter is being —it’s terrible!”But Jesus to her. His students came and urged him, “—she keeps shouting after us.”Jesus replied, “I was only to the .”But she came and . “Lord, help me!” she said.He answered, “It’s not right to take the food and throw it to the .”She said, “That’s true, Lord. But even the dogs eat the that fall from their .”Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, your is ! What you want will be done for you.” And her daughter was from that very moment.Jesus left there and went along the . He went up on a hillside and .Huge crowds came to him, bringing people who were lame, blind, crippled, unable to speak, and many others. They , and he healed them.The crowd was when they saw people who couldn’t speak now talking, crippled people restored, lame people walking, and blind people seeing. And they praised the .Jesus called his students to him and said, “ this crowd. They’ve been with me for three days now and have nothing left to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry—they might collapse on the way home.”His students said, “Where would we get enough bread to feed a crowd this size out here in the ?”Jesus asked, “How much bread do you have?” They said, “ and a few .”He told the crowd to sit down on the ground.Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, , them, and gave them to his students, who distributed them to the crowd.Everyone ate and was . And when they picked up the leftover pieces, there were .The number who ate was , not counting women and children.After sending the crowds away, Jesus got into a boat and went to the region of .