Matthew 15 (NET)

Matthew 15:1¹Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 23:9Luke 5:21Luke 5:30Mark 3:22Matt 23:2Matt 5:20Luke 5:17Mark 7:1-23Matt 23:15-28

Matthew 15:2²“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:38Mark 7:2Col 2:20-23Col 2:8Mark 7:51 Pet 1:18

Matthew 15:3³He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:23Titus 1:14Col 2:8Mark 7:6-8Mark 7:13Matt 7:3-5

Matthew 15:4⁴For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother ’ and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:12Exod 21:17Lev 20:9Deut 21:18-21Deut 5:16Prov 23:22Lev 19:3Matt 19:19Deut 27:16Eph 6:1

Matthew 15:5⁵But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:10-13Acts 5:29Matt 23:16-18Acts 4:19Amos 7:15-17Lev 27:9-34Prov 20:25

Matthew 15:6⁶he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:8Jer 8:8Mark 7:13Ps 119:1261 Tim 5:161 Tim 5:3-4Hos 4:6Mal 2:7-9Ps 119:139Rom 3:31

Matthew 15:7⁷Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:6Matt 23:23-29Acts 28:25-27Matt 7:5

Matthew 15:8⁸‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 29:13Ezek 33:31Acts 8:211 Pet 3:10Jer 12:2Prov 23:26Heb 3:12John 1:47

Matthew 15:9⁹and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 29:13Mark 7:71 Tim 1:4Titus 1:14Col 2:18-221 Tim 4:6-7Heb 13:9Isa 58:1-3Jas 2:20Deut 12:32

Matthew 15:10¹⁰Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:14-15Luke 20:45-47Col 1:9Luke 24:451 Kgs 22:28Isa 55:3Isa 6:9Matt 13:19Matt 24:15Eph 1:17

Matthew 15:11¹¹What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:15Matt 15:18-20Jas 3:5-81 Tim 4:4-5Matt 12:34-37Acts 10:14-15Rom 14:17Luke 11:38-41Ps 12:2Isa 59:13-15

Matthew 15:12¹²Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:32-331 Kgs 22:13-142 Cor 6:3Gal 2:5Jas 3:17Matt 17:27

Matthew 15:13¹³And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:2Isa 60:21John 15:6Isa 61:3Ps 92:13Matt 13:40-411 Cor 3:12-151 Cor 3:9

Matthew 15:14¹⁴Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 6:39Isa 56:10Matt 23:16-24Isa 9:16Mal 2:82 Pet 2:1Ezek 14:9-10Isa 42:19Jer 5:31Rev 22:15

Matthew 15:15¹⁵But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:36John 16:29Mark 4:34Mark 7:17

Matthew 15:16¹⁶Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 16:9Mark 7:18Mark 9:32Luke 9:45Matt 15:10Heb 5:12Isa 28:9-10Luke 18:34Luke 24:45Mark 6:52

Matthew 15:17¹⁷Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 6:451 Cor 6:13Matt 7:19-202 Kgs 10:27Col 2:21-22Jas 3:6

Matthew 15:18¹⁸But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 15:28Matt 12:34Jas 3:6-10Matt 15:11Prov 10:32Prov 15:2Prov 6:121 Sam 24:13Luke 19:22Ps 36:3

Matthew 15:19¹⁹For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:21-23Gal 5:19-21Jer 17:9Jas 1:13-15Titus 3:2-6Prov 4:23Gen 6:5Jer 4:14Rom 3:10-19Acts 8:22

Matthew 15:20²⁰These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:3-41 Cor 3:16-171 Cor 6:18-201 Cor 6:9-11Eph 5:3-6Luke 11:38-40Matt 15:2Matt 23:25-26Rev 21:27Rev 21:8

Matthew 15:21²¹After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:24-30Matt 11:21-23Josh 13:6Josh 19:28-29Judg 1:31Gen 49:13Josh 11:8Matt 10:5-6

Matthew 15:22²²A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:27Mark 7:25-26Matt 17:15Ps 45:12Ezek 3:6Luke 18:38-39Ps 4:1Luke 17:13Luke 18:13Mark 9:17-22

Matthew 15:23²³But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 14:15Gen 42:7Lam 3:8Mark 10:47-48Ps 28:1Deut 8:2

Matthew 15:24²⁴So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:5-6Rom 15:8Acts 13:46Jer 50:6-7Ezek 34:5-6Acts 3:25-26Ezek 34:16Ezek 34:23Isa 53:6Luke 15:4-6

Matthew 15:25²⁵But she came and bowed down before him and said, “Lord, help me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 32:26Hos 12:4Mark 9:22Matt 14:33Matt 20:31Luke 18:1-8Mark 9:24Matt 8:2Luke 11:8-10

Matthew 15:26²⁶“It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:27-28Matt 7:6Phil 3:2Eph 2:12Gal 2:15Acts 22:21-22Rev 22:15Rom 9:4

Matthew 15:27²⁷“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:8Luke 16:211 Tim 1:13-15Job 40:4-5Luke 15:18-19Rom 10:12Luke 18:13Luke 23:40-42Luke 7:6-7Matt 5:45

Matthew 15:28²⁸Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 9:23-24Matt 8:13Mark 5:34Matt 9:22Ps 145:19John 4:50-53Rom 4:19-20Matt 8:10Luke 18:42-43Mark 7:29-30

Matthew 15:29²⁹When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:18John 6:1Matt 5:1Matt 15:29-31Isa 9:1John 21:1John 6:23Josh 12:3Luke 5:1Mark 1:16

Matthew 15:30³⁰Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 6:17-19Acts 5:15-16Matt 14:35-36Acts 19:11-12Isa 35:5-6Ps 103:3Luke 7:21-22Mark 1:32-34Matt 11:4-5Acts 2:22

Matthew 15:31³¹As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:8Luke 18:43Gen 32:28Luke 17:15-18Luke 7:16Matt 18:8Matt 9:33Ps 50:15Ps 50:23Acts 14:8-10

Matthew 15:32³²Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:36Acts 27:33Luke 12:29-30Mark 8:1-10Matt 14:14-211 Sam 30:11-12Heb 4:15Luke 7:13Mark 9:22Matt 12:40

Matthew 15:33³³The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 6:5-9Luke 9:13Mark 6:37Mark 8:4-5Matt 14:152 Kgs 4:42-44Num 11:21-22

Matthew 15:34³⁴Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven—and a few small fish.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 16:9-10John 21:9-10Luke 24:41-42

Matthew 15:35³⁵After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 6:10Luke 9:14-16Mark 6:39-40Matt 14:19-21

Matthew 15:36³⁶he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, who then gave them to the crowds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 22:19Rom 14:6Acts 27:35John 6:111 Cor 10:311 Tim 4:3-41 Sam 9:13John 6:23Luke 22:17Luke 24:30

Matthew 15:37³⁷They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 8:19-21Luke 1:53Mark 8:8-9Matt 14:20-21Matt 15:33Matt 16:9-10Ps 107:9

Matthew 15:38³⁸Not counting children and women, there were 4,000 men who ate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Matthew 15:39³⁹After sending away the crowd, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 8:10Matt 14:22