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Matthew - Chapter 15

	Mat 15:1	Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,
	Mat 15:2	"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
	Mat 15:3	He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
	Mat 15:4	"For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; [fn] and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.' [fn]
	Mat 15:5	"But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me [is] a gift [to God]"--
	Mat 15:6	'then he need not honor his father or mother.' [fn] Thus you have made the commandment [fn] of God of no effect by your tradition.
	Mat 15:7	"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
	Mat 15:8	'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And [fn] honor Me with [their] lips, But their heart is far from Me.
	Mat 15:9	And in vain they worship Me, Teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.' " [fn]
	Mat 15:10	When He had called the multitude to [Himself], He said to them, "Hear and understand:
	Mat 15:11	"Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
	Mat 15:12	Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
	Mat 15:13	But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
	Mat 15:14	"Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."
	Mat 15:15	Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."
	Mat 15:16	So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?
	Mat 15:17	"Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
	Mat 15:18	"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
	Mat 15:19	"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
	Mat 15:20	"These are [the things] which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
	Mat 15:21	Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
	Mat 15:22	And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed."
	Mat 15:23	But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
	Mat 15:24	But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
	Mat 15:25	Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"
	Mat 15:26	But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the little dogs."
	Mat 15:27	And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
	Mat 15:28	Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great [is] your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
	Mat 15:29	Jesus departed from there, skirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down there.
	Mat 15:30	Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them [the] lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus' feet, and He healed them.
	Mat 15:31	So the multitude marveled when they saw [the] mute speaking, [the] maimed made whole, [the] lame walking, and [the] blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
	Mat 15:32	Now Jesus called His disciples to [Himself] and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."
	Mat 15:33	Then His disciples said to Him, "Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to fill such a great multitude?"
	Mat 15:34	Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven, and a few little fish."
	Mat 15:35	So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
	Mat 15:36	And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke [them] and gave [them] to His disciples; and the disciples [gave] to the multitude.
	Mat 15:37	So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left.
	Mat 15:38	Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
	Mat 15:39	And He sent away the multitude, got into the boat, and came to the region of Magdala. [fn]

NKJV Footnotes:

(15:4) Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
(15:4) Exodus 21:17
(15:6) NU-Text omits or mother.
(15:6) NU-Text reads word.
(15:8) NU-Text omits draw near to Me with their mouth, And.
(15:9) Isaiah 29:13
(15:39) NU-Text reads Magadan.

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