Matthew 15-17 (Darby Translation)

Matthew 15

 ¹Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,

 ²Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

 ³But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

 ⁴For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

 ⁵But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited:

 ⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

 ⁷Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

 ⁸This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

 ⁹but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men.

 ¹⁰And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:

 ¹¹Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

 ¹²Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

 ¹³But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

 ¹⁴Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.

 ¹⁵And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.

 ¹⁶But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?

 ¹⁷Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?

 ¹⁸but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

 ¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

 ²⁰these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

 ²¹And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;

 ²²and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.

 ²³But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.

 ²⁴But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

 ²⁵But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

 ²⁶But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

 ²⁷But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

 ²⁸Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is] great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.

 ²⁹And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;

 ³⁰and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:

 ³¹so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

 ³²But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

 ³³And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

 ³⁴And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

 ³⁵And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

 ³⁶and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

 ³⁷And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;

 ³⁸but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

 ³⁹And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan.

Matthew 16

 ¹And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.

 ²But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye say, Fine weather, for the sky is red;

 ³and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red [and] lowering; ye know [how] to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.

 ⁴A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas. And he left them and went away.

 ⁵And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

 ⁶And Jesus said to them, See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

 ⁷And they reasoned among themselves, saying, Because we have taken no bread.

 ⁸And Jesus knowing [it], said, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no bread?

 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 [it was] not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

 ¹²Then they comprehended that he did not speak of being beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

 ¹³But when Jesus was come into the parts of Caesarea-Philippi, he demanded of his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I the Son of man am?

 ¹⁴And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias; and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets.

 ¹⁵He says to them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am?

 ¹⁶And Simon Peter answering said, *Thou* art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

 ¹⁷And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

 ¹⁸And *I* also, I say unto thee that *thou* art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it.

 ¹⁹And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest loose on the earth shall be loosed in the heavens.

 ²⁰Then he enjoined on his disciples that they should say to no man that he was the Christ.

 ²¹From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised.

 ²²And Peter taking him to [him] began to rebuke him, saying, [God] be favourable to thee, Lord; this shall in no wise be unto thee.

 ²³But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

 ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

 ²⁵For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

 ²⁶For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

 ²⁷For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings.

 ²⁸Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste of death at all until they shall have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Matthew 17

 ¹And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.

 ²And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light;

 ³and lo, Moses and Elias appeared to them talking with him.

 ⁴And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elias.

 ⁵While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, *This* is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight: hear him.

 ⁶And the disciples hearing [it] fell upon their faces, and were greatly terrified.

 ⁷And Jesus coming to [them] touched them, and said, Rise up, and be not terrified.

 ⁸And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone.

 ⁹And as they descended from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of man be risen up from among [the] dead.

 ¹⁰And [his] disciples demanded of him saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first have come?

 ¹¹And he answering said to them, Elias indeed comes first and will restore all things.

 ¹²But I say unto you that Elias has already come, and they have not known him, but have done unto him whatever they would. Thus also the Son of man is about to suffer from them.

 ¹³Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the baptist.

 ¹⁴And when they came to the crowd, a man came to him, falling on his knees before him, and saying,

 ¹⁵Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic, and suffers sorely; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

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

 ¹⁷And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.

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

 ¹⁹Then the disciples, coming to Jesus apart, said [to him], Why were not *we* able to cast him out?

 ²⁰And he says to them, Because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed], ye shall say to this mountain, Be transported hence there, and it shall transport itself; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

 ²¹But this kind does not go out but by prayer and fasting.

 ²²And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered up into [the] hands of men,

 ²³and they shall kill him; and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were greatly grieved.

 ²⁴And when they came to Capernaum, those who received the didrachmas came to Peter and said, Does your teacher not pay the didrachmas?

 ²⁵He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What dost thou think, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive custom or tribute? from their own sons or from strangers?

 ²⁶Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

 ²⁷But that we may not be an offence to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when thou hast opened its mouth thou wilt find a stater; take that and give it to them for me and thee.