Gospel According to Matthew - Modern Literal Version

Gospel According to Matthew (MLV)

Matthew 15)

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

^15:3 And 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. {Ex. 20:12 & Dt. 5:16} And, He who is speaking-evil of father or mother, let him die the death. {Ex. 21:17 & Lev. 20:9}^15:5 But you* say, whoever says to his father or his mother, That in whatever you might have been profited by me is a gift to God^,^15:6 and by no means honor his father and mother; and thus you* have made invalid the commandment of God because of your* tradition.^15:7 You* hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well concerning you* , saying,^15:8 These people are drawing near to me with their mouth and are honoring me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.^15:9 But they worship me in vain, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. {Is. 29:13}^15:10 And he called to him the crowd and said to them, Hear and understand:^15:11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles the man; but what is proceeding out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

^15:12 Then the disciples came and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?^15:13Every plant my heavenly father did not plant will be uprooted. ^15:14 Allow them: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

^15:15 And Peter answered and said to him, Explain to us the parable.

^15:16 And Jesus said, Are you* yet without understanding also?^15:17 Do you* not yet perceive, that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and is cast out into the sewer?^15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.^15:19 For* out of the heart comes forth evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:^15:20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

^15:21 And Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.^15:22 And behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you the son of David. My daughter is miserably possessed with a demon.^15:23 But he answered her not a word.

And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Dismiss her; because she is crying after 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 And he answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs.

^15:27 But she said, Yes, Lord: for* even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their lords' table.

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

^15:29 And Jesus departed there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain and sat there.^15:30 And great crowds came to him there, having the lame, blind, dumb, maimed and many others with them. They cast them down against the feet of Jesus; and he healed them:^15:31 so-that the crowd marveled, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed healthy, lame walking and the blind seeing and they glorified the God of Israel.

^15:32 And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they remain already with me three days and have nothing to eat and I do not wish to dismiss them fasting, lest they faint on the way.

^15:33 And his disciples say to him, Where can we buy so many loaves for us in the wilderness so as to fill so great a crowd?

^15:34 And Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you* have?

And they said, Seven and a few small fish.

^15:35 And he commanded the crowd to recline on the ground.^15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fish; and he gave thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples and the disciples gave to the crowds.^15:37 And they all ate and were filled and they took up what was left-over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.^15:38 And those eating were about four thousand men, besides women and children.^15:39 And he dismissed the crowds and entered into the boat and came into the borders of Magadan.