The Teaching of the Ancestors
(Matthew 15.1-9)1 Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples were eating their food with hands that were ritually unclean—that is, they had not washed them in the way the Pharisees said people should.
( 3 For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way; 4 nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )
5 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, “Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?”
6 Jesus answered them, “How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote:
‘These people, says God, honor me with their words,
but their heart is really far away from me.
7 It is no use for them to worship me,
because they teach human rules
as though they were my laws!’
8 “You put aside God's command and obey human teachings.”
9 And Jesus continued, “You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching. 10 For Moses commanded, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.’ 11 But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, ‘This is Corban’ (which means, it belongs to God), 12 they are excused from helping their father or mother. 13 In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”
The Things That Make a Person Unclean
(Matthew 15.10-20)14 Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. 15 There is nothing that goes into you from the outside which can make you ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of you that makes you unclean.”
17 When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying. 18 “You are no more intelligent than the others,” Jesus said to them. “Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into you from the outside can really make you unclean, 19 because it does not go into your heart but into your stomach and then goes on out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared that all foods are fit to be eaten.)
20 And he went on to say, “It is what comes out of you that makes you unclean. 21 For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill, 22 commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly— 23 all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean.”
A Woman's Faith
(Matthew 15.21-28)24 Then Jesus left and went away to the territory near the city of Tyre. He went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there, but he could not stay hidden. 25 A woman, whose daughter had an evil spirit in her, heard about Jesus and came to him at once and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Gentile, born in the region of Phoenicia in Syria. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus answered, “Let us first feed the children. It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”
28 “Sir,” she answered, “even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers!”
29 So Jesus said to her, “Because of that answer, go back home, where you will find that the demon has gone out of your daughter!”
30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed; the demon had indeed gone out of her.
Jesus Heals a Deaf-Mute
31 Jesus then left the neighborhood of Tyre and went on through Sidon to Lake Galilee, going by way of the territory of the Ten Towns. 32 Some people brought him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they begged Jesus to place his hands on him. 33 So Jesus took him off alone, away from the crowd, put his fingers in the man's ears, spat, and touched the man's tongue. 34 Then Jesus looked up to heaven, gave a deep groan, and said to the man, “Ephphatha,” which means, “Open up!”
35 At once the man was able to hear, his speech impediment was removed, and he began to talk without any trouble. 36 Then Jesus ordered the people not to speak of it to anyone; but the more he ordered them not to, the more they told it. 37 And all who heard were completely amazed. “How well he does everything!” they exclaimed. “He even causes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak!”
Jesus ta tangunine ovanaihelele
(Mat. 15:1-20)1 Opo nee puye opa ongala Ovafarisai novanongo vomishangwa vamwe, va dile kuJerusalem. 2 Ndele eshi va mona ovalongwa vaye vamwe va lya omungome nomake inaa yela, okutya, inaa koshwa, ove va tala va nyona.
3 Osheshi Ovafarisai nOvajuda aveshe ihava li fimbo inava kosha shili omake avo nokudiinina eenghulunghedi dovakulunhu vonale. 4 Ndele ngeenge va dja koshilandelo, ihava li manga inave likosha; neenghedi dimwe dihapu hava diinine okuwanifa, ongaashi okukosha omaholo noitoo noiyaxa yongopolo.
5 Ovafarisai novanongo vomishangwa ove mu pula: “Oshike ovalongwa voye ihava diinine eenghulunghedi dovakulunhu, ndele hava li nomake inaa koshoka?” 6 Ndele okwa tya kuvo: “Jesaja okwe mu xunganekela da twa, nye ovanaihelele, ngaashi kwa shangwa: ‘Oshiwana eshi ohashi fimaneke nge nomilungu,
ndele omitima dasho odi li kokule naame.
7 Ndelenee ohava fimaneke nge hamungaho
nokulonga omalongo oipango yovanhu.’
8 Otamu ekeleshi oshipango shaKalunga, nye tamu diinine eenghulunghedi dovanhu ngaashi hamu diinine omakosho eenheka nomaholo, nohamu longo vali shi lili sha fa eshi.”
9 Ndele Ye okwa tya kuvo: “Eewa, ohamu ekeleshi oshipango shaKalunga, mu diinine eenghulunghedi deni. 10 Shaashi Moses okwa tile: ‘Fimaneka xo nanyoko,’ na: ‘Ou ta tuku xe ile ina, oye na fye okufya.’ 11 Ndele nye ohamu ti: Omunhu ngeenge ta ti kuxe ile kuina: ‘Osho wa li u noku shi pewa kwaame ekwafo, osho Korban’, nokutya, oshali kotembeli. 12 Opo nee itamu efa vali a kwafe xe ile ina. 13 Osho ngaha hamu dimi po eendjovo daKalunga konghulunghedi yeni mwe i dika. Naikwao ihapu ngaashi ei hamu i ningi.”
14 Ndele Ye okwa ifana vali ovanhu ve uye kuye, ndele okwe va lombwela: “Udeni nge amushe, nye mu didilike. 15 Kape na eshi shokombada tashi i momunhu, tashi mu nyateke, eshi tashi di momunhu, osho tashi mu nyateke. 16 Ngeenge oku na ou e nomatwi okuuda, ye na ude ko.”
17 Ndele eshi a tukuka novanhu ndele a ya meumbo lonhumba, ovalongwa vaye ove mu pula efaneko olo nhumbi tali ti. 18 Ndele Ye okwa tya kuvo: “Hamba, nanye yo kamu na eendunge? Kamu udite ko mboli? Keshe osho shokombada hashi i momunhu, ihashi mu nyateke. 19 Osheshi osho itashi i momutima waye, ndelenee omedimo, ndele tashi piti mo panghedi youshitwe.” Osho ngaha a tonga kutya, oikulya aishe oya koshoka. 20 Ndele Ye okwa tya: “Osho hashi di momunhu, osho tashi mu nyateke. 21 Osheshi meni, momitima dovanhu, ohamu di omadiladilo mai, ohole yoipala, oulunga, edipao, 22 enyono lohombo, olwisho, onyanya, ekotokelo, oihole, efupa, eshekokalunga, elinenepeko, oupwidi. 23 Owii aushe ou tau di meni lomunhu, ndele tau nyateke omunhu.”
Jesus ta velula omona wOmukaanan
(Mat. 15:21-28)24 Ndele Ye okwa dja ko oko, okwa ya komikunda daTirus naSidon. Ndele Ye okwa ya meumbo lonhumba, ndele ina hala shi shiivike kovanhu. Ndele okwa nyengwa okuhondama. 25 Osheshi diva omukainhu umwe, e nokanona okakadona ke kwetiwe komhepo ya nyata, eshi e mu uda kutya, okwe uya po, okwa wila poshi keemhadi daye. 26 Ndele omukainhu ou a li Omugreka, a dalelwa moshikandjo shaFoinikia shomuSiria, okwe mu indila a te mo ondemoni momona okakadona. 27 Jesus okwa tya kuye: “Efa ounona va kute tete, osheshi inashi wapala okukufa omungome wounona noku u ekela keembwena.” 28 Ndele ye okwe mu lombwela a tya: “Heeno, Omwene, eembwena ohadi li koshi yoshitaafula shoshililo oundjaumukile vounona.” 29 Ndele Ye okwa tya komukainhu: “Omolwondjovo ei, inda, ondemoni oya dja mo momumwoye okakadona.” 30 Ye okwa ya keumbo nokwa hanga okaana ka nangala komutala, ondemoni oya dja mo muko.
Omufitamatwi ta velulwa
(Mat. 15:29-31)31 Ndele Ye okwa dja ko vali komikunda daTirus nokupitila muSidon, ndele okwa ya kefuta laGalilea, ta ende mokati kaDekapolis. 32 Ndele ova eta kuye omufitamatwi ehe shii okupopya nawa, nove mu indila a tenheke eke laye kuye. 33 Ndele Ye okwe mu kufa movanhu, a twa ominwe daye momatwi aye, a fiya omate, ndele ta kumu elaka laye. 34 Ndele okwa tala keulu, ta fuda mokule ndele ta ti: “Efata!” nokutya: “Fituluka!” 35 Omatwi aye a fituluka nelaka laye la manguluka ndele ta popi nawa. 36 Ye okwe va kelela vehe shi lombwele nande omunhu, ndele nande okwe shi va kelela shili nokukumaida, ove shi hepaulula. 37 Ovanhu ova haluka unene va tya: “Aishe okwe i ninga nawa, ovafitamatwi ohe va udifa ko novafitandaka ohe va ningi va popye.”
