>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/15?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#08c0f::c08c0f) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/matthew/15.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Matthew/15.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mat/15/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Jesus, speaking to the Pharisees, the crowd, his disciples, and a Canaanite woman, taught in Galilee and the region of Tyre and Sidon about the importance of inner purity over outward traditions. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Jesus taught that being kind and saying good things is more important than just following rules. He also helped a mom who asked for help and fed lots of people with just a little food. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Jesus was challenged by the Pharisees about his disciples not following traditional hand-washing rituals. He taught that what comes from a person's heart, not what goes into their mouth, makes them unclean. Jesus also healed a Canaanite woman's daughter due to her faith and fed four thousand people with seven loaves and a few fishes, demonstrating his compassion and divine power. > >#Gospel/Faith #Gospel/Compassion #Gospel/Miracles ###### 1 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, ###### 2 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. ###### 3 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ###### 4 4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. ###### 5 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; ###### 6 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. ###### 7 7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, ###### 8 8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. ###### 9 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ###### 10 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: ###### 11 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. ###### 12 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? ###### 13 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. ###### 14 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ###### 15 15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. ###### 16 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? ###### 17 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? ###### 18 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. ###### 19 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: ###### 20 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. ###### 21 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. ###### 22 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. ###### 23 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. ###### 24 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ###### 25 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. ###### 26 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. ###### 27 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ###### 28 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. ###### 29 29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. ###### 30 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: ###### 31 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. ###### 32 32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. ###### 33 33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? ###### 34 34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. ###### 35 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. ###### 36 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. ###### 37 37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. ###### 38 38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. ###### 39 39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.