MODERN LITERAL VERSION

15:1 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying,
15:2 Why are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For* they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.

15:3 And answering, he said to them, Why do you* also transgress the commandment of God because of your* tradition?
15:4 For* God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother.' {Ex. 20:12 & Deut. 5:16} And, ‘He who is speaking evil of their father or mother, let him be ended, by the sentence of death.' {Ex. 21:17 & Lev. 20:9}
15:5 But you* say, Whoever says to his father or his mother, In whatever you might have been profited from me, it is a gift to God,
15:6 and may never* honor his father and mother, and thus you* invalidated the commandment of God because of your* tradition.
15:7 You* hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well concerning you*, saying,
15:8 ‘These people are drawing near to me with their mouth and are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is faraway from me.
15:9 But they are worshiping me with futility, teaching as their teachings– the commandments of men.' {Is. 29:13}

15:10 And he called to him the crowd and said to them, Hear and understand!
15:11 Not what goes into the mouth desecrates the man, but what goes out of the mouth, this desecrates the man.

15:12 Then the disciples came and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this speech?

15:13 Answering, he said, Every plant my heavenly father did not plant will be uprooted.
15:14 Allow them; they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

15:15 And Peter answered and said to him, Explain to us the parable.

15:16 And Jesus said, Are you* also without understanding at this point?
15:17 Do you* not yet perceive, that whatever goes into the mouth makes room in the belly and is cast out into the sewer?
15:18 But the things which goes out from the mouth come out from the heart, and they desecrate the man.
15:19 For* out of the heart comes forth evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
15:20 These are the things which desecrate the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not desecrate the man.
{Mk 7:24 & Mt 15:21.}

15:21 And Jesus went out from there and departed into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.
{Mk 7:25-30 & Mt 15:22-28 Tyre and Sidon.}

15:22 And behold, a woman from Canaan came out from those borders and cried-out to him, saying, Show-mercy on me, O Lord, you the son of David. My daughter is evilly demon-possessed.
15:23 But he answered her not a word.
And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, because she is crying behind us.

15:24 But answering, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

15:25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

15:26 And answering, he said, It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the puppies.

15:27 But she said, Yes, Lord; for* even the puppies eat of the crumbs which are falling from the table of their lords.

15:28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith. Let it happen for you as you will it. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

15:29 And Jesus proceeded from there and came near to the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat there.
{Mk 7:32-37 & Mt 15:30-31 Magadan and Bethsaida Summer 29 AD.}

15:30 And large crowds came to him there, having the lame, blind, mute, crippled and many others with them. They tossed them beside the feet of Jesus, and he healed them;
15:31 so-that the crowd marveled when they saw the mute speaking; the crippled, healthy; the lame walking and the blind seeing and they glorified the God of Israel.
{Mk 8:1-8:9 & Mt 15:32-39.}

15:32 And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, I have compassion upon the crowd, because they already remain with me three days and do not have anything in which they might eat and I am not willing to dismiss them starving, lest they might faint on the road.

15:33 And his disciples say to him, From where can we buy so-many loaves for us in the wilderness so-then to feed so-great a crowd?

15:34 And Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you* have?
And they said, Seven and a few small-fish.

15:35 And he commanded the crowd to lean-back upon the soil.
15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the few fish, and he gave-thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples and the disciples gave to the crowds.
15:37 And they all ate and were well fed and they took up what was leftover of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
15:38 And those eating were approximately four thousand men, plus women and children.
{Mk 8:10-26 & Mt 15:39-16:12 Near Caesarea Philippi Summer 29 AD.}

15:39 And he dismissed the crowds and stepped into the ship and went into the borders of Magadan.