Matthew

古人的传统

1那时，有法利赛人和文士从耶路撒冷来见耶稣，说：

2「你的门徒为什么犯古人的遗传呢？因为吃饭的时候，他们不洗手。」

3耶稣回答说：「你们为什么因着你们的遗传犯 神的诫命呢？

4神说：『当孝敬父母』；又说：『咒骂父母的，必治死他。』

5你们倒说：『无论何人对父母说：我所当奉给你的已经作了供献，

6他就可以不孝敬父母。』这就是你们借着遗传，废了 神的诫命。

7假冒为善的人哪，以赛亚指着你们说的预言是不错的。他说：

8这百姓用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我；

9他们将人的吩咐当作道理教导人， 所以拜我也是枉然。」

10耶稣就叫了众人来，对他们说：「你们要听，也要明白。

11入口的不能污秽人，出口的乃能污秽人。」

12当时，门徒进前来对他说：「法利赛人听见这话，不服，你知道吗？」

13耶稣回答说：「凡栽种的物，若不是我天父栽种的，必要拔出来。

14任凭他们吧！他们是瞎眼领路的；若是瞎子领瞎子，两个人都要掉在坑里。」

15彼得对耶稣说：「请将这比喻讲给我们听。」

16耶稣说：「你们到如今还不明白吗？

17岂不知凡入口的，是运到肚子里，又落在茅厕里吗？

18惟独出口的，是从心里发出来的，这才污秽人。

19因为从心里发出来的，有恶念、凶杀、奸淫、苟合、偷盗、妄证、谤 。

20这都是污秽人的；至于不洗手吃饭，那却不污秽人。」

迦南妇人的信心

21耶稣离开那里，退到泰尔、西顿的境内去。

22有一个迦南妇人，从那地方出来，喊着说：「主啊，大卫的子孙，可怜我！我女儿被鬼附得甚苦。」

23耶稣却一言不答。门徒进前来，求他说：「这妇人在我们后头喊叫，请打发她走吧。」

24耶稣说：「我奉差遣不过是到以色列家迷失的羊那里去。」

25那妇人来拜他，说：「主啊，帮助我！」

26他回答说：「不好拿儿女的饼丢给狗吃。」

27妇人说：「主啊，不错；但是狗也吃它主人桌子上掉下来的碎渣儿。」

28耶稣说：「妇人，你的信心是大的！照你所要的，给你成全了吧。」从那时候，她女儿就好了。

治好许多病人

29耶稣离开那地方，来到靠近加利利的海边，就上山坐下。

30有许多人到他那里，带着瘸子、瞎子、哑巴、有残疾的，和好些别的病人，都放在他脚前；他就治好了他们。

31甚至众人都希奇；因为看见哑巴说话，残疾的痊愈，瘸子行走，瞎子看见，他们就归荣耀给以色列的 神。

耶稣给四千人吃饱

32耶稣叫门徒来，说：「我怜悯这众人；因为他们同我在这里已经三天，也没有吃的了。我不愿意叫他们饿着回去，恐怕在路上困乏。」

33门徒说：「我们在这野地，哪里有这么多的饼叫这许多人吃饱呢？」

34耶稣说：「你们有多少饼？」他们说：「有七个，还有几条小鱼。」

35他就吩咐众人坐在地上，

36拿着这七个饼和几条鱼，祝谢了，擘开，递给门徒；门徒又递给众人。

37众人都吃，并且吃饱了，收拾剩下的零碎，装满了七个筐子。

38吃的人，除了妇女孩子，共有四千。

39耶稣叫众人散去，就上船，来到马加丹的境界。

1Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying:

2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

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

4Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

5But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.

6And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

7Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:

8This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

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

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

11Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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

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

14Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit.

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

16But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?

17Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

18But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.

19For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

20These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

21And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.

23Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:

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

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

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

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

28Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.

29And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee. And going up into a mountain, he sat there.

30And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

31So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

32And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

33And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

34And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.

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

36And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the people.

37And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.

38And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children and women.

39And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and came into the coasts of Magedan.