Matthew 15-17

Matthew 15

¹Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem -- scribes and Pharisees -- saying,

²‘Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

³And he answering said to them, ‘Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

⁴for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

⁵but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

⁶and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

⁷‘Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

⁸This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

⁹and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.'

¹⁰And having called near the multitude, he said to them, ‘Hear and understand:

¹¹not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

¹²Then his disciples having come near, said to him, ‘Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

¹³And he answering said, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

¹⁴let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹⁵And Peter answering said to him, ‘Explain to us this simile.'

¹⁶And Jesus said, ‘Are ye also yet without understanding?

¹⁷do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

¹⁸but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

¹⁹for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

²⁰these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

²¹And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon,

²²and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, ‘Deal kindly with me, Sir -- Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'

²³And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying -- ‘Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

²⁴and he answering said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

²⁵And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, ‘Sir, help me;'

²⁶and he answering said, ‘It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'

²⁷And she said, ‘Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;'

²⁸then answering, Jesus said to her, ‘O woman, great is thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.

²⁹And Jesus having passed thence, came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, he was sitting there,

³⁰and there came to him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they did cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them,

³¹so that the multitudes did wonder, seeing dumb ones speaking, maimed whole, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

³²And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, ‘I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.'

³³And his disciples say to him, ‘Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

³⁴And Jesus saith to them, ‘How many loaves have ye?' and they said, ‘Seven, and a few little fishes.'

³⁵And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground,

³⁶and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

³⁷And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full,

³⁸and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

³⁹And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.

Matthew 16

¹And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

²and he answering said to them, ‘Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

³and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

⁴‘A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

⁵And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves,

⁶and Jesus said to them, ‘Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

⁷and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, ‘Because we took no loaves.'

⁸And Jesus having known, said to them, ‘Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

⁹do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

¹⁰nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

¹¹how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

¹²Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹³And Jesus, having come to the parts of Cesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, ‘Who do men say me to be -- the Son of Man?'

¹⁴and they said, ‘Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

¹⁵He saith to them, ‘And ye -- who do ye say me to be?'

¹⁶and Simon Peter answering said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

¹⁷And Jesus answering said to him, ‘Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁸‘And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

¹⁹and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'

²⁰Then did he charge his disciples that they may say to no one that he is Jesus the Christ.

²¹From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

²²And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, ‘Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

²³and he having turned, said to Peter, ‘Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

²⁴Then said Jesus to his disciples, ‘If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

²⁵for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

²⁶for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

²⁷‘For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

²⁸Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'

Matthew 17

¹And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves,

²and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,

³and lo, appear to them did Moses and Elijah, talking together with him.

⁴And Peter answering said to Jesus, ‘Sir, it is good to us to be here; if thou wilt, we may make here three booths -- for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elijah.'

⁵While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

⁶And the disciples having heard, did fall upon their face, and were exceedingly afraid,

⁷and Jesus having come near, touched them, and said, ‘Rise, be not afraid,'

⁸and having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only.

⁹And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, ‘Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.'

¹⁰And his disciples questioned him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'

¹¹And Jesus answering said to them, ‘Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,

¹²and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'

¹³Then understood the disciples that concerning John the Baptist he spake to them.

¹⁴And when they came unto the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling down to him,

¹⁵and saying, ‘Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

¹⁶and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.'

¹⁷And Jesus answering said, ‘O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;'

¹⁸and Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour.

¹⁹Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, ‘Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?'

²⁰And Jesus said to them, ‘Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

²¹and this kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting.'

²²And while they are living in Galilee, Jesus said to them, ‘The Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men,

²³and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,' and they were exceeding sorry.

²⁴And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, ‘Your teacher -- doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, ‘Yes.'

²⁵And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, ‘What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth -- from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?'

²⁶Peter saith to him, ‘From the strangers.' Jesus said to him, ‘Then are the sons free;

²⁷but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'