{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/matthew/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:41:50.593Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Matthew","bookSlug":"matthew","chapter":15,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":14,"nextChapter":16,"totalChapters":28,"totalVerses":39},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"but in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings commandments of men."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And having called to him the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But he said, Are ye also still without intelligence?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried to him saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to him and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith is great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from that hour."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But Jesus, having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in the wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan."}],"citation":{"inline":"Matthew 15 (DBT)","markdown":"[Matthew 15](https://primebible.com/dbt/matthew/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/matthew/15 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}