The Teaching of the Ancestors
(Matthew 15.1-9)1 Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean—that is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should.
( 3 For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way; 4 nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )
5 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, “Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?”
6 Jesus answered them, “How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote:
‘These people, says God, honor me with their words,
but their heart is really far away from me.
7 It is no use for them to worship me,
because they teach human rules
as though they were my laws!’
8 “You put aside God's command and obey human teachings.”
9 And Jesus continued, “You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching. 10 For Moses commanded, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.’ 11 But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, ‘This is Corban’ (which means, it belongs to God), 12 they are excused from helping their father or mother. 13 In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”
The Things That Make a Person Unclean
(Matthew 15.10-20)14 Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. 15 There is nothing that goes into you from the outside which can make you ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of you that makes you unclean.”
17 When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying. 18 “You are no more intelligent than the others,” Jesus said to them. “Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into you from the outside can really make you unclean, 19 because it does not go into your heart but into your stomach and then goes on out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared that all foods are fit to be eaten.)
20 And he went on to say, “It is what comes out of you that makes you unclean. 21 For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill, 22 commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly— 23 all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean.”
A Woman's Faith
(Matthew 15.21-28)24 Then Jesus left and went away to the territory near the city of Tyre. He went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there, but he could not stay hidden. 25 A woman, whose daughter had an evil spirit in her, heard about Jesus and came to him at once and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Gentile, born in the region of Phoenicia in Syria. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus answered, “Let us first feed the children. It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”
28 “Sir,” she answered, “even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers!”
29 So Jesus said to her, “Because of that answer, go back home, where you will find that the demon has gone out of your daughter!”
30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed; the demon had indeed gone out of her.
Jesus Heals a Deaf-Mute
31 Jesus then left the neighborhood of Tyre and went on through Sidon to Lake Galilee, going by way of the territory of the Ten Towns. 32 Some people brought him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they begged Jesus to place his hands on him. 33 So Jesus took him off alone, away from the crowd, put his fingers in the man's ears, spat, and touched the man's tongue. 34 Then Jesus looked up to heaven, gave a deep groan, and said to the man, “Ephphatha,” which means, “Open up!”
35 At once the man was able to hear, his speech impediment was removed, and he began to talk without any trouble. 36 Then Jesus ordered the people not to speak of it to anyone; but the more he ordered them not to, the more they told it. 37 And all who heard were completely amazed. “How well he does everything!” they exclaimed. “He even causes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak!”
VII.
Ļaužu lykumi.
1 Pi Jō sasapuļcēja farizeji un daži nu Jeruzalemas atgōjušī Rokstim mōceitī. 2 Jī redzēja, ka daži mōcekli, nateirom rūkom byudami, tys ir nanūmozgōtom rūkom, ēde maizi. 3 Bet farizeji un jūdi, pīsaturūt vacōkūs īroduma, nikod naēde, īprīkš ryupeigi nanūmozgōjuši rūku. 4 Pat nu tērga atgōjuši, jī naēde, īprīkš naapslapynōjuši sevis ar yudini. Ir vēļ daudz cyta, pi kō jim, saskaņā ar īrodumu, jōpīsatur, kai bikeru, skrūžu, pūdu un gultu mozgōšonas.
5 Tad farizeji un Rokstim mōceitī vaicōja nu Jō: Kōpēc tovi mōcekli napylda vacōkūs īrodumu un ād maizi nateirom rūkom? 6 Bet Jys tim atbiļdēja: Izaja labi pravītōja par jums līkulim, kai ir raksteits:
Šytei tauta Mani gūdynoj tikai ar lyupom;
bet jōs sirds ir tōli nu Manis.
7 Bet veļteiga ir Manis gūdynōšona,
mōcūt tikai tū, kas ir cylvāku lykums.
8 Atmatuši Dīva lykumu, jyus pyldat cylvāku īrodumus. Skrūžu un bikeru mozgōšonas, kai ari daudz cytu tam leidzeigu lītu jyus pīsaturat.
9 Tōļōk jim saceja: Jyus mōkat veikli atmest Dīva lykumu, lai tik izpiļdeitu sovas īrašas. 10 Moizešs saceja: Tev byus sovu tāvu un mōti gūdā turēt, un: Kas lōd tāvu vai mōti, tys lai mērst. 11 Bet jyus sokat: Jo cylvāks tāvam vai mōtei pasaceitu: Korban, tys ir: upuram ir pazeimōts tys, kas tev nu manis kai atbolsts pīkrytsu, 12 tad jyus napīsokat sova tāva un mōtes lobā nikō dareit. 13 Jyus sovu īrodumu dēļ, kuru pīsaturat, atmatat Dīva lykumu. Un tam leidzeiga jyus daudz kō dorat.
14 Tad otkon pasaucis klōt ļaudis, tim saceja: Klausatēs Manis visi un saprūtat. 15 Nikō nava taida, kas nu ōrīnes īejūt cylvākā, varātu jū padareit nateiru; bet kas nu cylvāka izīt, tys gon var jū padareit nateiru. 16 Kam ausis ir dzērdēšonai, tys lai klausās.
17 Kad Jys, pametis ļaudis, nūgōja uz sātu, tad Jō mōcekli klause nu Jō par pīleidzeibu. 18 Un Jys tim saceja: Vai tad ari jums veļ tryukst saprasšonas? Vai jyus nazynat, ka vyss tys, kas nu ōrīnes īīt cylvākā, navar jō padareit nateira? 19 Tys taču naīīt jō sirdī, bet īīt mōgā un īt dabyskū ceļu, atteirejūt ikvīnu ēdīni.
20 Bet kas nu cylvāka izīt, saceja Jys tōļōk, tys padora jū nateiru. 21 Jo nu īškas, nu cylvāka sirds izīt ļaunōs gōdōšonas, palaidneiba, zagšona, slapkaveiba, 22 lauleibas lauzšona, montkōreiba, ļauneiba, viļteiba, nakauneiba, skaudeiba, saimōšona, lepneiba un naprōteiba. 23 Šytys vyss ļaunais izīt nu īkšīnes un padora cylvāku nateiru.
K. Jezus un pogōnīte.
24 Atstōjis turīni, Jys aizgōja uz Tyra un Sydona apvydu. Un īgōjis vīnā mōjā, gribēja, ka nikas par Jū nazynōtu, bet nazynoms navarēja palikt.
25 Jo tikkū beja izdzērduse par Jū kaida sīvīte, kuras meitai beja naškeistais gors, atnōce un nūkryta pi Jō kōjom. 26 Tei sīvīte beja pogōnīte nu Syrofenicijas. Jei lyudze, ka Jys izdzeitu nu jōs meitas valnu. 27 Bet Jys atbiļdēja: Ļauņ pyrmōk bārnim pasaseitynōt; jo tadei nav labi jimt nūst bārnim maizi un mest tū sunānim. 28 Bet jei atbiļdēja: Tai gon, Kungs, bet ari sunāni zam golda ād bārnu druponas. 29 Tad Jys jai saceja: Šytō vōrda dēļ ej: ļaunais gors tovu meitu jau pamete. 30 Un jei, nūgōjuse uz sovu sātu, atroda meitu guļūt uz gultas. Ļaunais gors jū jau beja pametis.
Kūrlmāmō izveseļōšona.
31 Jys, izgōjis nu Tyra rūbežim, nūgōja par Sydonu uz Galilejas jyurmolu, pōrīdams pa Dekapoles apgobola vydu.
32 Te atvede pi Jō vīnu kūrlmāmū un lyudze, ka Jys uzlyktu uz jō rūku. 33 Pajēmis jū nūmaļ nu ļaudim, Jys īlyka jō ausīs sovus pērstus un ar slīkom pīsadyure pi jō mēles. 34 Tad, pasavēris uz dabasim, gryuši nūsapyute un jam saceja: Effeta, tys ir: atsadori vaļā. 35 Un tyuleņ atsadareja jō ausis, un jō mēles saišks atsaraiseja, un jys sōce runōt.
36 Un Jys pīsaceja, ka nikam par tū nastōsteitu, bet kū styprōk nūlīdze, tū vairōk jī tū izdaudzynōja. 37 Jī ļūti breinōjōs un saceja: Jys vysu dora labi; kūrlūs Jys padora dzērdūšus un māmūs runojūšus.
