# Matthew 15

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/15

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem approached Jesus, saying,
2. Why do your disciples transgress the elders' tradition? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
3. He answered them, “Why do you also break God’s commandment for your tradition?”
4. For God said, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death."
5. But you say, "Whoever might say to his father or mother, 'Whatever you might be profited by me is a gift,'"
6. He shall not honor his father, and you have invalidated God's word because of your tradition.
7. You hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well about you, saying,
8. This people reverences me with their lips, but their heart stands far from me.
9. But they worship me in vain, teaching men's commandments as doctrines.
10. And calling the crowd to him, he said to them, "Hear and understand."
11. What enters into the mouth does not defile the man, but what comes out of the mouth—that defiles the man.
12. Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard the word?"
13. But he answered, “Every plant my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.”
14. Let them be. They are blind guides of the blind. If a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.
15. Peter answered him, "Explain this parable to us."
16. But he said, "Are you still without understanding too?"
17. Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the belly and is cast out into the latrine?
18. But the things coming out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
19. For from the heart come wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
20. These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
21. And leaving there, Jesus withdrew into the districts of Tyre and Sidon.
22. And look, a Canaanite woman from those borders came crying out, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is terribly demon-possessed."
23. But he made no reply to her, and his disciples came up and pleaded with him, saying, "Dismiss her, because she cries out behind us."
24. But he answered, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25. But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26. But he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”
27. But she said, "Yes, Lord, for even the dogs eat crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
28. Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29. And Jesus, leaving that place, came beside the Sea of Galilee, went up the mountain, and sat there.
30. Large crowds came to him, bringing deaf, blind, lame, and maimed people along with many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
31. So the crowd marveled, seeing the mute speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.
32. Jesus called his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat; I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."
33. And the disciples said to him, “Where could we get so many loaves in the wilderness to satisfy such a vast crowd?”
34. And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few little fish."
35. And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground.
36. He took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
37. They all ate and were satisfied, and they took up seven full baskets of the leftover fragments.
38. Those who ate were four thousand men, not counting women and children.
39. And dismissing the crowds, he boarded the boat and came to the borders of Magadan.

## Nearby chapters

[Matthew 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/14.md)
[Matthew 16](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/16.md)

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