Matthew 15

1Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,Cross-references: Matt 5:20 · Matt 23:2 · Matt 23:15 · Mark 3:22 · Mark 7:1 · Luke 5:17 · +3 more

2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”Cross-references: Gen 1:14 · Mark 7:2 · Mark 7:5 · Luke 11:38 · Col 2:8 · Col 2:20 · +1 more

3He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?Cross-references: Matt 7:3 · Mark 7:6 · Mark 7:13 · Col 2:8 · Col 2:23 · Titus 1:14

4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Ex 21:17 · Lev 19:3 · Lev 20:9 · Deut 5:16 · Deut 21:18 · +10 more

5But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”Cross-references: Lev 27:9 · Prov 20:25 · Amos 7:15 · Matt 23:16 · Mark 7:10 · Acts 4:19 · +1 more

6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.Cross-references: Ps 119:126 · Ps 119:139 · Jer 8:8 · Hos 4:6 · Mal 2:7 · Mark 7:13 · +4 more

7You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,Cross-references: Matt 7:5 · Matt 23:23 · Mark 7:6 · Acts 28:25

8‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.Cross-references: Prov 23:26 · Isa 29:13 · Jer 12:2 · Ezek 33:31 · John 1:47 · Acts 8:21 · +2 more

9And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”Cross-references: Ex 20:7 · Lev 26:16 · Lev 26:20 · Deut 12:32 · 1Sam 25:21 · Ps 39:6 · +17 more

10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:28 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 55:3 · Matt 13:19 · Matt 24:15 · Mark 7:14 · +5 more

11That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”Cross-references: Ps 10:7 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 52:2 · Ps 58:3 · Isa 37:23 · Isa 59:3 · +17 more

12Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:13 · Matt 17:27 · 1Cor 10:32 · 2Cor 6:3 · Gal 2:5 · James 3:17

13But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.Cross-references: Ps 92:13 · Isa 60:21 · Isa 61:3 · Matt 13:40 · John 15:2 · John 15:6 · +2 more

14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”Cross-references: Isa 9:16 · Isa 42:19 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 6:15 · Jer 8:12 · +11 more

15Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”Cross-references: Matt 13:36 · Mark 4:34 · Mark 7:17 · John 16:29

16So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?Cross-references: Isa 28:9 · Matt 13:51 · Matt 15:10 · Matt 16:9 · Matt 16:11 · Mark 6:52 · +7 more

17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?Cross-references: 2Ki 10:27 · Matt 7:19 · Luke 6:45 · 1Cor 6:13 · Col 2:21 · James 3:6

18But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:13 · Ps 36:3 · Prov 6:12 · Prov 10:32 · Prov 15:2 · Prov 15:28 · +5 more

19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Ps 119:113 · Prov 4:23 · Prov 6:14 · Prov 22:15 · +15 more

20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”Cross-references: Matt 15:2 · Matt 23:25 · Mark 7:3 · Luke 11:38 · 1Cor 3:16 · 1Cor 6:9 · +4 more

21Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.Cross-references: Gen 49:13 · Josh 11:8 · Josh 13:6 · Josh 19:28 · Judg 1:31 · Matt 10:5 · +2 more

22Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”Cross-references: Ps 4:1 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 45:12 · Ezek 3:6 · Matt 1:1 · Matt 3:8 · +11 more

23But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”Cross-references: Gen 42:7 · Deut 8:2 · Ps 28:1 · Lam 3:8 · Matt 14:15 · Mark 10:47

24But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”Cross-references: Isa 53:6 · Jer 50:6 · Ezek 34:5 · Ezek 34:16 · Ezek 34:23 · Matt 9:36 · +5 more

25But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Hos 12:4 · Matt 8:2 · Matt 14:33 · Matt 20:31 · Mark 9:22 · +3 more

26But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”Cross-references: Matt 7:6 · Mark 7:27 · Acts 22:21 · Rom 9:4 · Gal 2:15 · Eph 2:12 · +2 more

27But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”Cross-references: Gen 32:10 · Job 40:4 · Job 42:2 · Ps 51:4 · Ezek 16:63 · Dan 9:18 · +15 more

28Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · Job 13:15 · Job 23:10 · Ps 145:19 · Lam 3:32 · Matt 8:10 · +14 more

29Jesus departed from there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up on the mountain and sat there.Cross-references: Josh 12:3 · Isa 9:1 · Matt 4:18 · Matt 5:1 · Matt 13:2 · Mark 1:16 · +5 more

30Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,Cross-references: Ps 103:3 · Isa 35:5 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 11:4 · Matt 14:35 · Mark 1:32 · +6 more

31so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Gen 33:20 · Ex 24:10 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 50:23 · Matt 9:8 · +14 more

32Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”Cross-references: 1Sam 14:28 · 1Sam 30:11 · Matt 6:32 · Matt 9:36 · Matt 12:40 · Matt 14:14 · +8 more

33The disciples said to him, “Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”Cross-references: Num 11:21 · 2Ki 4:42 · Matt 14:15 · Mark 6:37 · Mark 8:4 · Luke 9:13 · +1 more

34Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”Cross-references: Matt 16:9 · Luke 24:41 · John 21:9

35He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;Cross-references: Matt 14:19 · Mark 6:39 · Luke 9:14 · John 6:10

36and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:13 · Matt 14:19 · Matt 26:26 · Luke 22:17 · Luke 22:19 · Luke 24:30 · +6 more

37They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.Cross-references: Ps 107:9 · Matt 14:20 · Matt 15:33 · Matt 16:9 · Mark 8:8 · Mark 8:19 · +1 more

38Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.

39Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.Cross-references: Matt 14:22 · Mark 8:10