Douay Rheims Original ↷

Matthew

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Matthew 15 📜 📕 ↷

Tradition of the Elders

1 THEN came to him from Jerusalem Scribes and Pharisees, saying:📜💬📚

2 Why do thy Disciples transgress the tradition of the Ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.📜💬📚

3 But he answering said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said:📜💬📚

4 Honour father and mother. And: He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.📜💬📚

5 But you say: whosoever shall say to father or mother, the gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee:📜💬📚

6 And shall not honour his father or his mother: & you have made frustrate the commandment of God for your own tradition.📜💬📚

7 Hypocrites, well hath Esay Prophesied of you, saying:📜💬📚

8 This People honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.📜💬📚

9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.📜💬📚

What Defiles a Man

10 And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand.📜💬📚

11 Not that which entereth into the mouth, defileth a man: but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, that defileth a man.📜💬📚

12 Then came his Disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?📜💬📚

13 But he answering said: All planting which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.📜💬📚

14 Let them alone: blind they are, guides of the blind. And if the blind be guide to the blind, both fall into the ditch.📜💬📚

15 And Peter answering said to him: Expound us this parable.📜💬📚

16 But he said: Are you also as yet without understanding?📜💬📚

17 Do you not understand, that all that entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast forth into the privy?📜💬📚

18 But the things that proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.📜💬📚

19 For from the heart come forth evil cogitations, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.📜💬📚

20 These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashen hands, doth not defile a man.📜💬📚

Faith of the Canaanite Woman

21 And JESUS went forth from thence and retired into the quarters of Tyre and Sidon.📜💬📚

22 And behold a woman of Chanaan came forth out of those coasts, & crying out, said to him: Have mercy upon me, O Lord the Son of David: my daughter is sore vexed of a devil.📜💬📚

23 Who answered her not a word. And his Disciples came and besought him saying: Dismiss her, because she crieth out after us.📜💬📚

24 And he answering said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel.📜💬📚

25 But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.📜💬📚

26 Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the Children, and to cast it to the dogs.📜💬📚

27 But she said: Yea Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.📜💬📚

28 Then JESUS answering said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: And her daughter was made whole from that hour.📜💬📚

Feeding of the Four Thousand

29 And when JESUS was passed from thence, he came beside the sea of Galilee: & ascending into the mountain, sat there.📜💬📚

30 And there came to him great multitudes, having with them dumb persons, blind, lame, feeble, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he cured them:📜💬📚

31 So that the multitudes marveled seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk, the blind see: and they magnified the God of Israel.📜💬📚

32 And JESUS called together his Disciples, and said: I pity the multitude because three days now they continue with me, & have not what to eat: and dismiss them fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.📜💬📚

33 And the Disciples say unto him: whence then may we get so many loaves in the desert as to fill so great a multitude?📜💬📚

34 And JESUS said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, & a few little fishes.📜💬📚

35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.📜💬📚

36 And taking the Seven loaves & the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, & gave it to his Disciples, and the Disciples gave to the people.📜💬📚

37 And they did all eat, and had their fill. And that which was left of the fragments they took up, seven baskets full.📜💬📚

38 And there were that did eat, four thousand men, beside children & women.📜💬📚