Matthew 15
1THEN there come to Jesus the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem, saying:
2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3And he answering said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition?
4For God commanded, saying[15:4]: Honor thy father and mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die.
5But ye say: Whoever says to his father or his mother, It is a gift, whatever thou mightest be profited with from me,
6shall not honor his father or his mother; and ye made the word of God[15:6] of no effect, for the sake of your tradition.
7Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying:
8This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
9But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men.
10And calling to him the multitude, he said to them: Hear, and understand:
11Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
12Then came to him his disciples, and said to him: Knowest thou that the Pharisees, when they heard the saying, were offended?
13And he answering said: Every plant, which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
14Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.
15And Peter answering said to him: Explain to us this parable.
16And he said: Are ye also even yet without understanding?
17Do ye not yet understand, that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the drain?
18But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.
19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies.
20These are the things that defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defiles not the man.
21And Jesus, going forth from thence, withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22And behold, a woman of Canaan, coming out from those borders, cried to him, saying: Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously possessed with a demon.
23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Dismiss her; because she cries after us.
24But he answering said: I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25But she came and bowed down to him, saying: Lord, help me.
26But he answering said: It is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the dogs.
27And she said: Yea, Lord; for the dogs also eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.
28Then Jesus answering said to her: O woman, great is thy faith; be it done to thee as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29And departing from thence, Jesus came near to the sea of Galilee; and going up into the mountain, he sat down there.
30And great multitudes came to him, having with them lame, blind dumb, maimed, and many others, and laid them down at his feet, and he healed them;
31so that the multitudes wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
32And Jesus, having called to him his disciples, said: I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I will not dismiss them fasting, lest they faint in the way.
33And his disciples say to him: Whence should we have so many loaves in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
34And Jesus says to them: How many loaves have ye? And they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.
35And he commanded the multitudes to lie down on the ground.
36And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37And they all ate, and were filled. And they took up of the fragments that remained seven baskets full.
38And they who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
39And dismissing the multitudes, he entered into the ship, and came into the borders of Magdala.