< Matthew 15 >
1 Then [some] Pharisees and men who taught the [Jewish] laws came from Jerusalem [to talk to] Jesus. They said,
අපරං යිරූශාලම්නගරීයාඃ කතිපයා අධ්යාපකාඃ ඵිරූශිනශ්ච යීශෝඃ සමීපමාගත්ය කථයාමාසුඃ,
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!”
තව ශිෂ්යාඃ කිමර්ථම් අප්රක්ෂාලිතකරෛ ර්භක්ෂිත්වා පරම්පරාගතං ප්රාචීනානාං ව්යවහාරං ලඞ්වන්තේ?
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]
තතෝ යීශුඃ ප්රත්යුවාච, යූයං පරම්පරාගතාචාරේණ කුත ඊශ්වරාඥාං ලඞ්වධ්වේ|
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.’
ඊශ්වර ඉත්යාඥාපයත්, ත්වං නිජපිතරෞ සංමන්යේථාඃ, යේන ච නිජපිතරෞ නින්ද්යේතේ, ස නිශ්චිතං ම්රියේත;
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].”’
කින්තු යූයං වදථ, යඃ ස්වජනකං ස්වජනනීං වා වාක්යමිදං වදති, යුවාං මත්තෝ යල්ලභේථේ, තත් න්යවිද්යත,
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.
ස නිජපිතරෞ පුන ර්න සංමංස්යතේ| ඉත්ථං යූයං පරම්පරාගතේන ස්වේෂාමාචාරේණේශ්වරීයාඥාං ලුම්පථ|
7 You only pretend to be good! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you [also when he quoted what God said about your ancestors. God said],
රේ කපටිනඃ සර්ව්වේ යිශයියෝ යුෂ්මානධි භවිෂ්යද්වචනාන්යේතානි සම්යග් උක්තවාන්|
8 ‘These people talk [as if they] honor me [MTY], but they do not think about honoring me at all [MET].
වදනෛ ර්මනුජා ඒතේ සමායාන්ති මදන්තිකං| තථාධරෛ ර්මදීයඤ්ච මානං කුර්ව්වන්ති තේ නරාඃ|
9 It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up [as if I myself had commanded it].’”
කින්තු තේෂාං මනෝ මත්තෝ විදූරඒව තිෂ්ඨති| ශික්ෂයන්තෝ විධීන් න්රාඥා භජන්තේ මාං මුධෛව තේ|
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.
තතෝ යීශු ර්ලෝකාන් ආහූය ප්රෝක්තවාන්, යූයං ශ්රුත්වා බුධ්යධ්බං|
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].”
යන්මුඛං ප්රවිශති, තත් මනුජම් අමේධ්යං න කරෝති, කින්තු යදාස්යාත් නිර්ගච්ඡති, තදේව මානුෂමමේධ්යී කරෝතී|
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]?”
තදානීං ශිෂ්යා ආගත්ය තස්මෛ කථයාඤ්චක්රුඃ, ඒතාං කථාං ශ්රුත්වා ඵිරූශිනෝ ව්යරජ්යන්ත, තත් කිං භවතා ඥායතේ?
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].
ස ප්රත්යවදත්, මම ස්වර්ගස්ථඃ පිතා යං කඤ්චිදඞ්කුරං නාරෝපයත්, ස උත්පාව්ද්යතේ|
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].” ()
තේ තිෂ්ඨන්තු, තේ අන්ධමනුජානාම් අන්ධමාර්ගදර්ශකා ඒව; යද්යන්ධෝ(අ)න්ධං පන්ථානං දර්ශයති, තර්හ්යුභෞ ගර්ත්තේ පතතඃ|
15 Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable [about what a person eats].”
තදා පිතරස්තං ප්රත්යවදත්, දෘෂ්ටාන්තමිමමස්මාන් බෝධයතු|
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]
යීශුනා ප්රෝක්තං, යූයමද්ය යාවත් කිමබෝධාඃ ස්ථ?
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].
කථාමිමාං කිං න බුධ්යධ්බේ? යදාස්යං ප්රේවිශති, තද් උදරේ පතන් බහිර්නිර්යාති,
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].
කින්ත්වාස්යාද් යන්නිර්යාති, තද් අන්තඃකරණාත් නිර්යාතත්වාත් මනුජමමේධ්යං කරෝති|
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].
යතෝ(අ)න්තඃකරණාත් කුචින්තා බධඃ පාරදාරිකතා වේශ්යාගමනං චෛර්ය්යං මිථ්යාසාක්ෂ්යම් ඊශ්වරනින්දා චෛතානි සර්ව්වාණි නිර්ය්යාන්ති|
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.”
ඒතානි මනුෂ්යමපවිත්රී කුර්ව්වන්ති කින්ත්වප්රක්ෂාලිතකරේණ භෝජනං මනුජමමේධ්යං න කරෝති|
21 After Jesus [took us and] left [Galilee district], we went into the region [where the cities of] Tyre and Sidon [are located].
අනන්තරං යීශුස්තස්මාත් ස්ථානාත් ප්රස්ථාය සෝරසීදෝන්නගරයෝඃ සීමාමුපතස්යෞ|
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.”
තදා තත්සීමාතඃ කාචිත් කිනානීයා යෝෂිද් ආගත්ය තමුච්චෛරුවාච, හේ ප්රභෝ දායූදඃ සන්තාන, මමෛකා දුහිතාස්තේ සා භූතග්රස්තා සතී මහාක්ලේශං ප්රාප්නෝති මම දයස්ව|
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!”
කින්තු යීශුස්තාං කිමපි නෝක්තවාන්, තතඃ ශිෂ්යා ආගත්ය තං නිවේදයාමාසුඃ, ඒෂා යෝෂිද් අස්මාකං පශ්චාද් උච්චෛරාහූයාගච්ඡති, ඒනාං විසෘජතු|
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].”
තදා ස ප්රත්යවදත්, ඉස්රායේල්ගෝත්රස්ය හාරිතමේෂාන් විනා කස්යාප්යන්යස්ය සමීපං නාහං ප්රේෂිතෝස්මි|
25 But she came [closer] to Jesus and knelt down in front of him [to worship him]. She pled, “Lord/Sir, help me!”
තතඃ සා නාරීසමාගත්ය තං ප්රණම්ය ජගාද, හේ ප්රභෝ මාමුපකුරු|
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.”
ස උක්තවාන්, බාලකානාං භක්ෂ්යමාදාය සාරමේයේභ්යෝ දානං නෝචිතං|
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]!”
තදා සා බභාෂේ, හේ ප්රභෝ, තත් සත්යං, තථාපි ප්රභෝ ර්භඤ්චාද් යදුච්ඡිෂ්ටං පතති, තත් සාරමේයාඃ ඛාදන්ති|
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.
තතෝ යීශුඃ ප්රත්යවදත්, හේ යෝෂිත්, තව විශ්වාසෝ මහාන් තස්මාත් තව මනෝභිලෂිතං සිද්ය්යතු, තේන තස්යාඃ කන්යා තස්මින්නේව දණ්ඩේ නිරාමයාභවත්|
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].
අනන්තරං යීශස්තස්මාත් ස්ථානාත් ප්රස්ථාය ගාලීල්සාගරස්ය සන්නිධිමාගත්ය ධරාධරමාරුහ්ය තත්රෝපවිවේශ|
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.
පශ්චාත් ජනනිවහෝ බහූන් ඛඤ්චාන්ධමූකශුෂ්කකරමානුෂාන් ආදාය යීශෝඃ සමීපමාගත්ය තච්චරණාන්තිකේ ස්ථාපයාමාසුඃ, තතඃ සා තාන් නිරාමයාන් අකරෝත්|
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!”
ඉත්ථං මූකා වාක්යං වදන්ති, ශුෂ්කකරාඃ ස්වාස්ථ්යමායාන්ති, පඞ්ගවෝ ගච්ඡන්ති, අන්ධා වීක්ෂන්තේ, ඉති විලෝක්ය ලෝකා විස්මයං මන්යමානා ඉස්රායේල ඊශ්වරං ධන්යං බභාෂිරේ|
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].”
තදානීං යීශුඃ ස්වශිෂ්යාන් ආහූය ගදිතවාන්, ඒතජ්ජනනිවහේෂු මම දයා ජායතේ, ඒතේ දිනත්රයං මයා සාකං සන්ති, ඒෂාං භක්ෂ්යවස්තු ච කඤ්චිදපි නාස්ති, තස්මාදහමේතානකෘතාහාරාන් න විස්රක්ෂ්යාමි, තථාත්වේ වර්ත්මමධ්යේ ක්ලාම්යේෂුඃ|
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]”
තදා ශිෂ්යා ඌචුඃ, ඒතස්මින් ප්රාන්තරමධ්ය ඒතාවතෝ මර්ත්යාන් තර්පයිතුං වයං කුත්ර පූපාන් ප්රාප්ස්යාමඃ?
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.”
යීශුරපෘච්ඡත්, යුෂ්මාකං නිකටේ කති පූපා ආසතේ? ත ඌචුඃ, සප්තපූපා අල්පාඃ ක්ෂුද්රමීනාශ්ච සන්ති|
35 He told the people to sit on the ground.
තදානීං ස ලෝකනිවහං භූමාවුපවේෂ්ටුම් ආදිශ්ය
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.
තාන් සප්තපූපාන් මීනාංශ්ච ගෘහ්ලන් ඊශ්වරීයගුණාන් අනූද්ය භංක්ත්වා ශිෂ්යේභ්යෝ දදෞ, ශිෂ්යා ලෝකේභ්යෝ දදුඃ|
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].
තතඃ සර්ව්වේ භුක්ත්වා තෘප්තවන්තඃ; තදවශිෂ්ටභක්ෂ්යේණ සප්තඩලකාන් පරිපූර්ය්ය සංජගෘහුඃ|
තේ භෝක්තාරෝ යෝෂිතෝ බාලකාංශ්ච විහාය ප්රායේණ චතුඃසහස්රාණි පුරුෂා ආසන්|
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.
තතඃ පරං ස ජනනිවහං විසෘජ්ය තරිමාරුහ්ය මග්දලාප්රදේශං ගතවාන්|