Matthew 15
1 Then [some] Pharisees and men who taught the [Jewish] laws came from Jerusalem [to talk to] Jesus. They said,
Toen kwamen tot Jezus de schriftgeleerden en fariseërs van Jerusalem, zeggende:
2 “(We think it is disgusting that your disciples disobey the traditions of our ancestors!/Why do your disciples disobey [what our ancestors wrote down and] our [elders taught us]?) [RHQ] They do not perform the proper ritual of washing their hands before they eat!”
Waarom overtreden uw discipelen de overlevering der ouden? Want zij wasschen hun handen niet als zij brood gaan eten.
3 Jesus answered them, “(What is really disgusting is that you refuse to obey God’s commands [just] so that you can follow what your ancestors taught you!/Why do you refuse to obey what God commanded [people to do, just] so that you can follow your own traditions?) [RHQ]
En Hij antwoordde en zeide tot hen: Waarom overtreedt ook gijlieden Gods gebod om uw overlevering?
4 God gave these [two] commands: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘People who speak evil about their father or mother must be executed.’
Want God heeft geboden, zeggende: Eert uw vader en moeder, en: Wie vader of moeder kwaad toespreekt, sterve den dood!
5 But you tell people, ‘You can say to your father or mother, “What I was going to give to you [to help provide for you], [I have now promised] to give [to God].”’
Maar gijlieden zegt: Zoo wie tot zijn vader of moeder zegt: ‘t Is een offergave, wat gij van mij zoudt genieten, — maar intusschen eert hij zijn vader of moeder niet.
6 And if you do that, you think that you do not need to give anything to help your parents. In [that way], [by teaching people] your traditions, you disregard what God commanded.
En gij hebt dus de wet Gods krachteloos gemaakt om uw overlevering.
7 You only pretend to be good! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you [also when he quoted what God said about your ancestors. God said],
Geveinsden! te recht heeft Jesaja aangaande u geprofeteerd, zeggende:
8 ‘These people talk [as if they] honor me [MTY], but they do not think about honoring me at all [MET].
Dit volk genaakt Mij met hun mond, en eert Mij met de lippen, maar hun hart is verre van Mij.
9 It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up [as if I myself had commanded it].’”
Maar tevergeefs dienen zij Mij, omdat zij leeringen leeren die geboden van menschen zijn.
10 Then Jesus [again] summoned the crowd to come [nearer] to him. Then he said to them, “Listen to [what I am about to tell you], and [try to] understand it.
En Hij riep de menigte tot zich en zeide tot haar: Hoort en verstaat!
11 Nothing that a person puts into his mouth [to eat] causes [God to consider] that person to be unacceptable. Instead, it is [the words] that come out of people’s mouths [SYN] that cause [God to reject them].”
Niet wat den mond ingaat, verontreinigt den mensch; maar wat den mond uitgaat, dat is het wat den mensch verontreinigt.
12 Later we disciples went to Jesus and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees heard what you said, and as a result they felt offended [RHQ]?”
Toen kwamen de discipelen tot Hem en zeiden tot Hem: Weet gij wel dat de fariseërs, dit woord gehoord hebbende, zich geërgerd hebben?
13 Then, [to teach us what God would do to the Pharisees], Jesus told [us this parable]: “My Father in heaven [will] get rid of all [those who teach things that are contrary to his truth, just like a farmer] gets rid of plants that he did not plant, by pulling them up along with their roots [MET].
Maar Hij antwoordde en zeide: Alle plant die mijn hemelsche Vader niet geplant heeft, zal uitgerukt worden.
14 Do not pay any attention to [the Pharisees]. They [do not help people who do not know God’s truth] to [understand it, just like] blind guides [do not help] blind [people to perceive where they should go] [MET]. If a blind person [tries to] lead [another] blind person, they will both fall into a big hole [MET]. [Similarly, both the Pharisees and their disciples will end up in hell].” (questioned)
Laat ze varen! Blinde leidslieden van blinden zijn zij! En als de eene blinde den anderen leidt, zullen zij beiden in de gracht vallen.
15 Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable [about what a person eats].”
Petrus nu antwoordde en zeide tot Hem: Verklaar ons deze gelijkenis.
16 He replied [to them], “(I am disappointed that even you, [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand!/Why is it that even you [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand?) [RHQ]
En Jezus zeide: Zijt ook gij nog onverstandig?
17 (You ought to understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs, and later the refuse passes out of their [bodies]./Cannot you understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs and later the refuse passes out [of their bodies]?) [RHQ] [Because food does not alter what we think and desire, what we eat does not cause God to consider that we are unacceptable to him].
Weet gij nog niet dat alles wat den mond ingaat, in den buik komt, en in het geheim wordt uitgeworpen?
18 [You should know that] what comes out of [people’s] mouths, [meaning everything that they say] [SYN], comes from their inner beings/hearts. Many of the [things that they say] cause [God to consider] them to be unacceptable [to him].
Maar wat den mond uitgaat, komt uit het hart, en die dingen verontreinigen den mensch.
19 It is people’s innermost beings that [cause them] to think things that are evil, to murder people, to [commit] adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about [others].
Want uit het hart komen booze overleggingen, moord, overspel, hoererij, diefstal, valsch getuigenis, lasteringen.
20 It is these actions that cause [God to consider] people to be unacceptable [to him]. To eat with unwashed hands does not cause [God to consider] people unacceptable to him.”
Deze dingen zijn het die den mensch verontreinigen, maar het eten met ongewasschen handen verontreinigt den mensch niet.
21 After Jesus [took us and] left [Galilee district], we went into the region [where the cities of] Tyre and Sidon [are located].
En Jezus vandaar weggaande, trok naar de omstreken van Tyrus en Sidon.
22 A woman [from the group of people called] Canaanites who live in that region came [to the place where Jesus was staying]. She kept shouting [to him], “Lord, you are the descendant of [King] David, [you are the Messiah!] Have pity on me [and my daughter!] She is suffering very much because a demon controls her.”
En ziet, een kananeesche vrouw, uit die streken komende, riep, zeggende: Ontferm U mijner, Heere, Zoon van David! mijn dochter is erg bezeten van een boozen geest.
23 But Jesus did not answer her at all. [We] disciples came to him, and [knowing that the woman was not a Jew], we said to him, “Tell her to leave, because she keeps [bothering us] by yelling behind us!”
Maar Hij antwoordde haar geen woord. En zijn discipelen gingen tot Hem en vroegen Hem, zeggende: Laat haar van U! want zij roept ons na.
24 But Jesus said [to her], “I have been sent {[God] has sent me} to [help] only the Israelite people [at this time] [SYN]. [They are like] sheep that have gotten lost [MET] [because they do not know the way to heaven].”
En Hij antwoordde en zeide: Ik ben niet gezonden dan tot de verloren schapen van het huis Israëls.
25 But she came [closer] to Jesus and knelt down in front of him [to worship him]. She pled, “Lord/Sir, help me!”
En zij kwam en aanbad Hem, zeggende: Heere, help mij!
26 Then, [to suggest to her that he needed to help the Jews first and not the non-Jews, whom the Jews called dogs], he told her, “It is not good [for someone] to take food [that has been prepared for] the children and throw it to the [little] dogs.”
Maar Hij antwoordde en zeide: Het is niet billijk het brood van de kinderen te nemen en voor de honden te werpen!
27 [But to show that she believed that non-Jews could also receive help from God], the woman said [to Jesus], “Lord/Sir, what you [say is] correct, but even the [little] dogs eat the crumbs that fall to the floor [when] their masters [sit at] their tables [and eat]!”
En zij zeide: ‘t Is waar, Heere! doch de honden eten toch van de kruimels die vallen van de tafel hunner meesters?
28 Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, [because] you believe firmly [in me, I] will [heal your daughter] as you desire!” At that moment [the demon left] her daughter, [and she] became well.
Toen antwoordde Jezus en zeide tot haar: O vrouw! groot is uw geloof! U geschiede gelijk gij wilt. En haar dochter werd genezen in die zelfde ure.
29 After Jesus, [along with us disciples], departed from that area, we went [back] to Galilee Lake [and walked] along it. Then Jesus climbed the hill [near there] and sat down [to teach the people].
En vandaar weggaande, ging Jezus langs de zee van Galilea, en Hij klom op den berg en zat daar neder.
30 Crowds kept coming to him for the next two days and brought lame, crippled, and blind people, those who were unable to talk, and many others [who had various sicknesses]. They laid them in front of Jesus [so that he would heal them] [SYN]. And he healed them.
En tot Hem kwamen vele scharen die bij zich hadden kreupelen, blinden, stommen, lammen en vele anderen; en zij leiden die aan zijn voeten, en Hij genas hen,
31 The crowd saw [him heal] people who could not talk, crippled people, lame people, and blind people, and they were amazed. They said, “Praise God [who rules over us who live in] Israel!”
zoodat de scharen zich verwonderden, toen zij zagen dat stommen spraken, lammen gezond werden, kreupelen wandelden en blinden zagen; en zij gaven glorie aan den God van Israël.
32 Then Jesus called us disciples to him and said [to us], “This crowd [of people] has been with me for three days and have nothing [left] to eat. I feel sorry for them. I do not want to send them away [while they are still] hungry, [because if I did that], they might faint on the way [home].”
En Jezus riep zijn discipelen tot zich en zeide: Ik heb medelijden met de schare, want het is nu al drie dagen dat zij bij Mij blijven en zij hebben niets om te eten; en Ik wil hen niet hongerig laten gaan, opdat zij onderweg niet bezwijken.
33 We disciples said to him, “In this place where nobody lives, (we cannot possibly obtain enough food to feed such a large crowd!/how can we obtain a large enough amount of food to feed such a large crowd?) [RHQ]”
En de discipelen zeiden tot Hem: Vanwaar krijgen wij in een woestijn zooveel brooden, om zoo groote menigte te verzadigen?
34 Jesus asked us, “How many small loaves do you have?” We said to him, “[We have] seven small loaves and a few [cooked] fish.”
En Jezus zeide tot hen: Hoeveel brooden hebt gij? En zij zeiden: Zeven en een weinig vischjes.
35 He told the people to sit on the ground.
En Hij gebood de schare zich op den grond neder te zetten.
36 Then he took the seven small loaves and the fish. After he thanked [God for them], he broke them [into pieces], and he kept giving [them] to us. Then we [kept distributing] them to the crowd.
En Hij nam de zeven brooden en de visschen, en als Hij gedankt had, brak Hij ze en gaf ze aan de discipelen; en de discipelen gaven ze aan de scharen.
37 [Because Jesus made the food multiply miraculously], all [those people] ate and had [plenty to] satisfy [them]. There were 4,000 men [who ate], but no [one counted] the women and the children [who also ate]. Then we [disciples] collected the pieces of food that were left over, and we filled seven large baskets [with them].
En allen aten en werden verzadigd; en het overschot der brokken namen zij op, zeven volle manden.
En die gegeten hadden, waren vier duizend mannen, behalve de kinderen en de vrouwen.
39 After Jesus dismissed the crowd, he, [along with us], got in the boat, and we sailed [around the lake] to the region called Magadan.
En toen Hij de scharen had laten weggaan, ging Hij in het schip; en zij kwamen in de omstreken van Magdala.
