Matthieu 15
1 Alors s’approchèrent de lui les scribes et les pharisiens de Jérusalem, disant:
Then [some] Pharisees and men who taught the [Jewish] laws came from Jerusalem [to talk to] Jesus. They said,
2 Pourquoi vos disciples transgressent-ils la tradition des anciens? car ils ne lavent pas leurs mains, lorsqu’ils mangent du pain.
“(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!”
3 Mais Jésus leur répondit, disant: Et vous, pourquoi transgressez-vous le commandement de Dieu, pour votre tradition? Car Dieu a dit:
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]
4 Honore ton père et ta mère; et quiconque maudira son père ou sa mère, mourra de mort.
God gave these [two] commands: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘People who speak evil about their father or mother must be executed.’
5 Mais vous, vous dites: Quiconque dit à son père ou à sa mère: Tout don que j’offre, tournera à votre profit, satisfait à la loi;
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].”’
6 Et cependant il n’honore point son père ou sa mère; ainsi vous avez détruit le commandement de Dieu pour votre tradition.
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.
7 Hypocrites, Isaïe a bien prophétisé de vous, disant:
You only pretend to be good! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you [also when he quoted what God said about your ancestors. God said],
8 Ce peuple m’honore des lèvres; mais son cœur est loin de moi.
‘These people talk [as if they] honor me [MTY], but they do not think about honoring me at all [MET].
9 Et il est vain le culte qu’ils me rendent, enseignant des doctrines et des ordonnances humaines.
It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up [as if I myself had commanded it].’”
10 Puis, ayant appelé à lui le peuple, il leur dit: Écoutez et comprenez.
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.
11 Ce n’est pas ce qui entre dans la bouche qui souille l’homme; mais ce qui sort de la bouche, voilà ce qui souille l’homme.
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].”
12 Alors, ses disciples s’approchant, lui dirent: Savez-vous que les pharisiens, cette parole entendue, se sont scandalisés?
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]?”
13 Mais Jésus, répondant, dit: Toute plante que mon Père céleste n’a point plantée, sera arrachée.
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].
14 Laissez-les; ils sont aveugles et conducteurs d’aveugles; or, si un aveugle conduit un aveugle ils tombent tous deux dans une fosse.
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)
15 Prenant alors la parole, Pierre lui dit: Expliquez-nous cette parabole.
Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable [about what a person eats].”
16 Mais Jésus répondit: Et vous aussi, êtes-vous encore sans intelligence?
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]
17 Ne comprenez-vous point que tout ce qui entre dans la bouche va au ventre, et est rejeté en un lieu secret?
(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].
18 Mais ce qui sort de la bouche vient du cœur, et voilà ce qui souille l’homme.
[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].
19 Car du cœur viennent les mauvaises pensées, les homicides, les adultères, les fornications, les vols, les faux témoignages, les blasphèmes.
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].
20 C’est là ce qui souille l’homme; mais manger sans avoir lavé ses mains, ne souille point l’homme.
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.”
21 Jésus étant parti de là, se retira du côté de Tyr et de Sidon.
After Jesus [took us and] left [Galilee district], we went into the region [where the cities of] Tyre and Sidon [are located].
22 Et voici qu’une femme chananéenne, sortie de ces contrées, s’écria, lui disant: Seigneur, fils de David, ayez pitié de moi; ma fille est cruellement tourmentée par le démon.
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.”
23 Jésus ne lui répondit pas un mot. Et ses disciples s’approchant de lui le priaient, disant: Renvoyez-la, car elle crie derrière nous.
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!”
24 Mais Jésus répondant, dit: Je n’ai été envoyé qu’aux brebis perdues de la maison d’Israël.
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].”
25 Elle, cependant, vint et l’adora, disant: Seigneur, secourez-moi.
But she came [closer] to Jesus and knelt down in front of him [to worship him]. She pled, “Lord/Sir, help me!”
26 Jésus répliquant, dit: Il n’est pas bien de prendre le pain des enfants et de le jeter aux chiens.
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.”
27 Mais elle repartit: Il est vrai, Seigneur; mais les petits chiens mangent les miettes qui tombent de la table de leurs maîtres.
[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]!”
28 Alors reprenant la parole, Jésus lui dit: Ô femme, grande est votre foi; qu’il vous soit fait comme vous désirez. Et sa fuie fut guérie dès cette heure-là.
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.
29 Et lorsqu’il fut parti de là, Jésus vint le long de la mer de Galilée; et montant sur la montagne, il s’y assit.
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].
30 Alors s’approcha de lui une grande foule, ayant avec elle des muets, des aveugles, des boiteux, des infirmes et beaucoup d’autres; et on les mit à ses pieds, et il les guérit:
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.
31 De sorte que la foule était dans l’admiration, voyant des muets parlant, des boiteux marchant, des aveugles voyant; et elle glorifiait le Dieu d’Israël.
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!”
32 Cependant, Jésus ayant appelé ses disciples, dit: J’ai pitié de ce peuple, car il y a déjà trois jours qu’ils sont constamment avec moi, et ils n’ont pas de quoi manger; et je ne veux pas les renvoyer à jeun, de peur qu’ils ne défaillent en chemin.
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].”
33 Les disciples lui répondirent: Où donc nous procurer, dans un désert, assez de pains pour rassasier une si grande multitude?
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]”
34 Et Jésus leur demanda: Combien avez-vous de pains? Et eux lui dirent: Sept, et quelques petits poissons.
Jesus asked us, “How many small loaves do you have?” We said to him, “[We have] seven small loaves and a few [cooked] fish.”
35 Alors il commanda au peuple de s’asseoir sur la terre.
He told the people to sit on the ground.
36 Et prenant les sept pains et les poissons, et rendant grâces, il les rompit et les donna à ses disciples, et ses disciples les donnèrent au peuple.
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.
37 Et tous mangèrent et furent rassasiés. Et de ce qui resta de morceaux, ses disciples emportèrent sept corbeilles pleines.
[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].
38 Or, ceux qui mangèrent étaient au nombre de quatre mille hommes, outre les petits enfants et les femmes.
39 Et le peuple renvoyé, il monta dans la barque, et vint aux confins du Magédan.
After Jesus dismissed the crowd, he, [along with us], got in the boat, and we sailed [around the lake] to the region called Magadan.
