[Matthew 15]

 

             {Mar 7:1-23 & Mat 15:1-20 & Joh 7:1 Galilee, probably Capernaum Spring 29 AD.}

             ^15:1 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying, ^15:2 Why are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For^* they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.

             ^15:3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you^° also transgress the commandment of God because of your^° tradition? ^15:4 For^* God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ {Exo 20:12 & Deu 5:16} And, ‘He who is speaking evil of their father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ {Exo 21:17 & Lev 20:9} ^15:5 But you^° say, Whoever says to the father or the mother, in whatever you might be profited from me, it is a gift to God, and then should never honor his father or mother. ^15:6 And thus you^° invalidated the commandment of God because of your^° tradition. ^15:7 O hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well concerning you^°, saying, ^15:8 ‘This people are drawing near to me with their mouth, and are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is distant and faraway from me. ^15:9 But they are worshiping me in futility, teaching as their teachings the commandments of men.’ {Isa 29:13}

             ^15:10 And he called the crowd and said to them, Hear^° and understand^°! ^15:11 Not the thing entering into the mouth desecrates the man, but what is traveling from the mouth, this desecrates the man.

 

             ^15:12 Then the disciples came near to him and said, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended after they heard your speech?

             ^15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly father did not plant will be uprooted. ^15:14 Leave^° them! They are blind guides of the blind ones. Now if the blind guide the blind, both will be falling into a ditch.

             ^15:15 Now Peter answered and said to him, Explain to us this parable.

             ^15:16 Now Jesus said, Are you^° also without understanding at this point? ^15:17 Are you^° not yet perceiving, that everything which travels into the mouth is making room in the belly, and is cast forth into the sewer? ^15:18 But the things traveling out from the mouth, come forth from the heart, and they desecrate the man. ^15:19 For^* out-of the heart comes forth evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false^* testimonies, blasphemies. ^15:20 These are the things desecrating the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not desecrate the man.

 

             {Mar 7:24 & Mat 15:21.}

             ^15:21 And Jesus went forth from there, and departed into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.

 

             {Mar 7:25-30 & Mat 15:22-28 Tyre and Sidon.}

             ^15:22 And behold, a woman from Canaan went forth from those borders, and cried-out to him, saying, Show-mercy to me, Lord, son of David. My daughter is evilly demon-possessed. ^15:23 But he answered her not a word.

             And his disciples came near and were asking him, saying, Dismiss her; she is crying behind us.

             ^15:24 But he answered and said, I was not sent, except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

             ^15:25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

             ^15:26 Now he answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and cast it to the puppies.

             ^15:27 But she said, Yes, Lord; for^* even the puppies eat from the crumbs, the ones falling from the table of their lords.

             ^15:28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith. Let it happen for you as you will it. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

 

             {Mar 7:31 & Mat 15:29 Avoiding Herod’s territory.}

             ^15:29 And Jesus went-away from there, and went beside the sea of Galilee, and he went-up into the mountain and was sitting there.

             {Mar 7:32-37 & Mat 15:30-31 Magadan and Bethsaida Summer 29 AD.}

             ^15:30 And many crowds came to him there, who have their own lame, blind, mute, crippled and many others with them. They tossed them beside the feet of Jesus, and he healed them; ^15:31 so-then for the crowds to marvel, seeing the mute speaking; the crippled healthy; the lame walking; and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

 

             {Mar 8:1-9 & Mat 15:32-38.}

             ^15:32 Now Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion upon the crowd because they already remain with me three days, and do not have what they might eat, and I am not willing to dismiss them starving, lest they might faint on the road.

             ^15:33 And his disciples say to him, From where can we buy so-many loaves for us in the wilderness, so-then to fully-feed so-great a crowd?

             ^15:34 And Jesus says to them, How-many loaves do you^° have?

             But they said, Seven and a few small-fish.

             ^15:35 And he commanded the crowds to lean-back upon the soil. ^15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the few fish, and he gave-thanks and broke them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the crowd. ^15:37 And they all ate and were fully-fed, and they took up the leftover of the broken pieces, seven full baskets. ^15:38 Now the ones eating were approximately four thousand men, separate from women and children.

 

             {Mar 8:10-26 & Mat 15:39-16:12 Near Caesarea Philippi Summer 29 AD.}

             ^15:39 And after he dismissed the crowds, he stepped into the ship, and went into the borders of Magadan.