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Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 15

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Chapter 15 of Matthew—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem1 Pharisees and scribes, saying:
  2. “Why is it your disciples overstep the tradition of the men of former times? For example, they do not wash their hands when about to eat a meal.”2
  3. ¶ In reply he said to them: “Why is it YOU also overstep the commandment of God because of YOUR tradition?3
  4. For example, God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’;4 and, ‘Let him that reviles father or mother end up in death.’[a]5
  5. But YOU say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother: “Whatever I have by which you might get benefit from me is a gift dedicated to God,”
  6. he must not honor his father at all.’6 And so YOU have made the word of God invalid because of YOUR tradition.7
  7. YOU hypocrites,8 Isaiah9 aptly prophesied about YOU, when he said,
  8. ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me.10
  9. It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”11
  10. With that he called the crowd near and said to them: “Listen and get the sense of it:12
  11. Not what enters into [his] mouth defiles a man; but it is what proceeds out of [his] mouth that defiles a man.”13
  12. ¶ Then the disciples came up and said to him: “Do you know that the Pharisees stumbled at hearing what you said?”14
  13. In reply he said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.15
  14. LET them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”[b]16
  15. By way of response Peter said to him: “Make the illustration[c] plain to us.”17
  16. At this he said: “Are YOU also yet without understanding?18
  17. Are YOU not aware that everything entering into the mouth passes along into the intestines and is discharged into the sewer?[d]
  18. However, the things proceeding out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those things defile a man.19
  19. For example, out of the heart come wicked reasonings,20 murders, adulteries, fornications, thieveries, false testimonies, blasphemies.21
  20. These are the things defiling a man; but to take a meal with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”22
  21. ¶ Leaving there, Jesus now withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Siʹdon.23
  22. And, look! a Phoe·niʹcian[e]24 woman from those regions came out and cried aloud, saying: “Have mercy on me,25 Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly demonized.”
  23. But he did not say a word in answer to her. So his disciples came up and began to request him: “Send her away; because she keeps crying out after us.”
  24. In answer he said: “I was not sent forth to any but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”26
  25. When the woman came she began doing obeisance to him, saying: “Lord, help me!”27
  26. In answer he said: “It is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to little dogs.”
  27. She said: “Yes, Lord; but really the little dogs do eat of the crumbs falling from the table of their masters.”28
  28. Then Jesus said in reply to her: “O woman, great is your faith; let it happen to you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour on.29
  29. ¶ Crossing country from there, Jesus next came near the sea of Galʹi·lee,30 and, after going up into the mountain,31 he was sitting there.
  30. Then great crowds approached him, having along with them people that were lame, maimed, blind, dumb, and many otherwise, and they fairly threw them at his feet, and he cured them;32
  31. so that the crowd felt amazement as they saw the dumb speaking and the lame walking and the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.33
  32. ¶ But Jesus called his disciples to him and said:34 “I feel pity35 for the crowd, because it is already three days that they have stayed with me and they have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away fasting. They may possibly give out on the road.”
  33. However, the disciples said to him: “Where are we in this lonely place going to get sufficient loaves to satisfy a crowd of this size?”36
  34. At this Jesus said to them: “How many loaves have YOU?” They said: “Seven, and a few little fishes.”
  35. So, after instructing the crowd to recline upon the ground,
  36. he took the seven loaves and the fishes and, after offering thanks, he broke them and began distributing to the disciples, the disciples in turn to the crowds.37
  37. And all ate and were satisfied, and as a surplus of fragments they took up seven provision baskets full.38
  38. Yet those eating were four thousand men, besides women and young children.
  39. Finally, after sending the crowds away, he got into the boat and came into the regions of Magʹa·dan.39

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “die without fail.”
  2. ^ Or, “ditch.”
  3. ^ Or, “parable.”
  4. ^ Or, “cesspool; water closet; privy.”
  5. ^ Or, “Canaanite.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Mr 7:1
  2. ^ Mr 7:2; Lu 11:38; Jn 2:6
  3. ^ Mt 15:9; Mr 7:8; Col 2:8; Ti 1:14
  4. ^ Ex 20:12; De 5:16; Eph 6:2
  5. ^ Ex 21:17; Le 20:9; De 27:16; Mr 7:10
  6. ^ Mr 7:12
  7. ^ Mr 7:13
  8. ^ Mt 23:13
  9. ^ Mr 7:6
  10. ^ Is 29:13
  11. ^ Ps 78:37; Eze 33:31; Mr 7:7; Col 2:22
  12. ^ Mr 7:14
  13. ^ Mt 12:34; Mr 7:15; Eph 4:29; 1Ti 4:4; Jm 3:6
  14. ^ Mr 7:17
  15. ^ Jn 15:6; Ac 5:38
  16. ^ Is 9:16; Ml 2:8; Mt 23:16; Lu 6:39; Jn 9:40
  17. ^ Mt 13:36; Mr 4:10; Lu 8:9
  18. ^ Mr 7:18
  19. ^ Ps 5:9; Mr 7:20; Ro 3:13
  20. ^ Ge 8:21; De 15:9; Pr 6:14; Je 17:9; Ro 1:28
  21. ^ Mr 7:21; Ga 5:19
  22. ^ Mr 7:23
  23. ^ Mr 7:24
  24. ^ 1Ki 17:9; Mr 7:26; Lu 4:26
  25. ^ Mt 20:30
  26. ^ Is 53:6; Mt 10:6; Ac 3:26; 13:46; Ro 15:8
  27. ^ Mr 7:26
  28. ^ Mr 7:28
  29. ^ Mr 7:29; Jn 4:53
  30. ^ Mr 7:31
  31. ^ Mt 5:1
  32. ^ Is 35:5; Mt 19:2; Mr 3:10; 7:32
  33. ^ Mt 9:33; Mr 7:37
  34. ^ Mr 8:1
  35. ^ Mt 14:14; Mr 6:34
  36. ^ Nu 11:22; 2Ki 4:43; Mr 8:4
  37. ^ De 8:10; 1Sa 9:13; Mt 14:19; Mr 8:6
  38. ^ Mt 16:10; Mr 8:8
  39. ^ Mr 8:10

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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