Commandments and traditions; what defiles a person; feeding of the 4,000 right after we just saw the feeding of 5,000 yesterday. Also a famous quote from Isaiah and what happens if the blind lead the blind.

Matthew 15

Then scribes and Pharisees form Jerusalem came to Jesus saying:

2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

3 He answered and said “Why do you also break the commandment of God by your tradition?

4 For God commanded ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘He that curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ 

6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it.

7 You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying

8 ‘This people honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'”

10 He called the crowds and said to them “Hear, and understand:

11 That which goes into the mouth does not defile a man; but what comes out of the mouth defiles a man.”

12 Then his disciples came and said to him “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?”

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

14 Leave them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”

15 Then Peter answered and said “Declare to us this parable.”

16 Jesus said “Are you also without understanding?

17 Do you not understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is expelled?

18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart; and they defile the man.

19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

20 These are the things which defile a man: but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.” 

21 Then Jesus left there and withdrew to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 A Canaanite woman came from that region, and cried out to him saying “Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David. My daughter is suffering and demon-possessed.” 

23 But he answered not a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

24 He answered and said “I am only sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

25 Then came she and worshiped him, saying “Lord, help me.”

26 But he answered and said “It is not right to take the children’s bread and to cast it to dogs.”

27 She said “Yes Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

28 Then Jesus answered and said “O woman, your faith is great. Let it be done as you desire.” And her daughter was healed at once.

29 Jesus departed from there and came to the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

30 And great crowds came to him, bringing those that were lame, blind, mute and many others. They put them down at Jesus’ feet and he healed them:

31 The crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speak, the crippled healed, the lame walk and the blind see; and they glorified the God of Israel.

32 Then Jesus called his disciples and said “I have compassion on this crowd, because they have been with me for three days now, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away hungry,  they may faint on the way.”

33 His disciples said to him “Where should we get so much bread in the wilderness, to feed such a crowd?”

34 Jesus said “How many loaves do you have?” And they said “Seven, and a few small fish.”

35 He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground.

36 And he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

37 They all ate and were filled: and they took up seven baskets full of the leftover pieces. 

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

39 Dismissing the crowd, he got into a boat and came into the coasts of Magadan.

See also: Matthew 15 in ESV, HCSB, NASB and NIV via Bible Gateway.