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| [[File:matthew3.jpg|center|thumb|250px|[[Matthew]] was inspired to explain the [[kingdom of God]] to the Jews and the Parthians do that they might [[repent]] of the ways of error<Ref name="Errorbn">{{Errorbn}}</Ref> which the systems of [[social welfare]] of the [[cities of blood]] and seek [[the way]] of His [[righteousness]].]]
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| '''Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges''', states that, "[[Matthew 15]]:1-20. ''(is about)'' The True [[Religion]] and the [[False religion]] of the [[world]]. A Discourse to the [[Pharisees]], the People, and the [[Disciples]]." '''We must learn and know''' what was the meaning of [[Religion]] and the difference between [[Pure Religion]] and [[Public religion]], the difference between [[legal charity]] and [[fervent charity]], and of course the difference between the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and the [[Corban of Christ]]. The difference was in the spots. <Ref name="Spotsq">{{Spotsq}}</Ref>
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|The [[Pharisees]] challenged [[Jesus]] and  Jesus challenged them "Why do ye also transgress the commandment"<Ref name="commandment5"></Ref> and that challenge still applies to the [[modern Christian]]. 
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| '''V1-9'''. Much evil is from ignorance, and a messenger had to be sent to them to prepare you to receive the Lord.
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| '''V1-6''' Shows the [[world]] of Judaism had [[degenerate]]d by the process generated by the institution of [[legal charity]] established by [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]].
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| What were and are those '''[[tradition]]'''<Ref name="paradosis">{{3862}}</Ref> mentioned in '''V2, V3''' and '''V6''' but also translated "ordinance"? And why is it defined "giving up, giving over"?
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| V5  '''Matthew does not use the term [[Corban]] but he does use the corresponding Greek term for "a gift"''' which is ''doron''<Ref name="gift">{{1435}}</Ref>. [[Mark 7]]:11 says ''doron'' is the same as [[Corban]]. ''Doron'' "refers to a ''present'' yet not always "gratuitous" or "wholly unsuggestive of recompence;" or "money cast into the treasury for the purposes of the temple and for the support of the poor" as we see in [[Luke 21]]<Ref>[[Luke 21]]:1  And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts <1435> into the treasury.</Ref>
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| V6 Barnes' Notes on the Bible states "It is a gift - In Mark it is '[[corban]].' The word '[[corban]]' is a Hebrew word denoting a gift." It may denote a gift but it means [[sacrifice]] in Hebrew<Ref name="qorban">{{07133}}</Ref> and in the Greek text we can see them translated ''treasury'' and ''[[Corban]]''.<Ref name="korban">{{2878}}</Ref>
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| The [[Pharisees]] challenged [[Jesus]] and  Jesus challenged them in Matthew 15 and that challenge still applies to the [[modern Christian]]. In [[Mark 7]] He names the problem of the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] that was making the word of God to none effect. 
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| The English word ''[[tradition]]'' is defined today as "the transmission of a long-established custom or belief that has been passed on from one generation to another." or in Theology "a doctrine believed to have divine authority though not in the scriptures." The Greek term  in the text is ''paradosis'' meaning "the act of giving up" and "the surrender of cities". In Greek it meant "delivery (of goods, parcels, etc" or from a military view "surrender".)<Ref name="tradition"></Ref> is also translated "ordinances". During the early days of [[Herod]]'s reign as king the [[Pharisees]] moved their system of sacrifice in the temple to a different form of giving.
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| How do their ''ordinances'' transgress the commandments of God? Jesus mentions the one we see in [[Exodus 20]]:12 where the word ''honor"<Ref name="honor">{{5091}}</Ref>  is from the Hebrew word meaning to give a ''value'' from a word to ''fatten''.
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| What we are seeing is the same challenge made in [[Mark 7]]:11 concerning the sacrifice/[[corban]] given to the temple where sons think they do not need to take care of their parents because they gave a gift/offering<Ref name="gift">{{1435}}</Ref> at the temple. The same word ''gift'' is in [[John 9]], [[Mark 7]], and [[Matthew 15]].
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| We see the [[fear]] of the blind man's parents when they might be kicked out of that [[social security]] system of the temple in [[John 9]]. The free bread of '''[[Rome]]''' also came from the [[temples]] of [[Rome]] provided by men like [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] that [[force]]d the contributions of the people. It would be those "commandments of men"<Ref name="commandment1"></Ref> that would be done away with by ''nailing it to the [[cross]]''.
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| The people of Judea and most of the [[world]] were back in the [[bondage of Egypt]]. When the people received the [[baptism]] of Jesus they were cast out of the [[Corban]] system of the [[Pharisees]] they were free to create a [[daily ministration]] and pursuit the [[Corban of Christ]].
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| Remember '''V11''', What cometh out ... defileth?<Ref name="koinoo">{{2840}}</Ref> Is a repeated theme like  '''V17-V19''' but also V8 with <span style="color:red">'''their mouth, and ... lips; but their heart<Ref name="kardia">{{2588}}</Ref> is far...'''</span> away from the God of heaven.
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== Traditions and Commandments ==


[1] Then came to Jesus [[scribe]]s and [[Pharisees]], which were of Jerusalem, saying,

[2] Why do thy disciples transgress the [[tradition]]<Ref name="paradosis">{{3862}}</Ref> of the [[elders]]?<Ref>[[Lamentations 4]]:13 ¶  For the sins of her prophets, [and] the [[iniquity|iniquities]] of her [[priests]], that have shed the [[blood]] of the just in the midst of her, 14  They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 15  They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] [[unclean]]; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the [[heathen]], They shall no more sojourn [there]. 16  The anger of the [[LORD]] hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they [[persons|respected not the persons]] of the [[priests]], they favoured not the [[elders]].
: [[Hosea 9]]:12  Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13  Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14  Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15  All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters. 16  Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.</Ref> for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

[3] But he answered and said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Why do ye also transgress the commandment<Ref name="commandment5">{{1785}}</Ref> of God by your [[tradition]]<Ref name="paradosis">{{3862}}</Ref>?'''</span>

[4] <span style="color:red">'''For God commanded<Ref name="commandment1">{{1781}}</Ref>, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.'''</span>

[5] <span style="color:red">'''But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift<Ref name="doron">{{1435}}</Ref>, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;'''</span>

[6] <span style="color:red">'''And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of [[Corban|none effect]]<Ref name="akuroo">{{208}}</Ref> by your [[tradition]].<Ref name="paradosis">{{3862}}</Ref>'''</span>

[7] <span style="color:red">'''Ye [[hypocrite]]s<Ref name="hypocri">{{hypocri}}</Ref>, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,'''</span>

[8] <span style="color:red">'''This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth<Ref name="fromme">{{fromme}}</Ref>, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart<Ref name="kardia">{{2588}}</Ref> is far from me.'''</span>

[9] <span style="color:red">'''But in vain they do [[worship]] me, teaching for doctrines the commandments<Ref name="commandment1"></Ref> of men.'''<Ref name="fromme">{{fromme}}</Ref></span>

== What Defiles a Person ==

[10] And he called the multitude, and said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Hear, and understand:'''</span>

[11] <span style="color:red">'''Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth<Ref name="koinoo">{{2840}}</Ref> a man.'''</span>

[12] Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the [[Pharisees]] were offended, after they heard this saying?

[13] But he answered and said, <span style="color:red">'''Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.'''</span>

[14] <span style="color:red">'''Let them alone: they be blind leaders<Ref name="Blindlead'">{{Blindlead}}</Ref> of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind<Ref name="Blindlead'">{{Blindlead}}</Ref>, both shall fall into the ditch.'''</span>

== Do you not understand ==

[15] Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

[16] And Jesus said, <span style="color:red">'''Are ye also yet without understanding?'''</span>

[17] <span style="color:red">'''Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?'''</span>

[18] <span style="color:red">'''But those things which proceed out of the mouth<Ref name="consentnot">{{consentnot}}</Ref> come forth from the heart<Ref name="kardia">{{2588}}</Ref>; and they defile<Ref name="koinoo">{{2840}}</Ref> the man.'''</span>

[19] <span style="color:red">'''For out of the heart<Ref name="kardia">{{2588}}</Ref> proceed evil<Ref name="poneros">{{4190}}</Ref> thoughts, murders, [[adultery|adulteries]], [[fornication]]s, thefts, false witness, [[blaspheme|blasphemies]]:'''</span>

[20] <span style="color:red">'''These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth<Ref name="koinoo">{{2840}}</Ref> not a man.'''</span>

== The Faith of a Canaanite Woman ==

[21] Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

[22] And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.<Ref name="Possesed">{{Possesed}}</Ref>

[23] But he answered her not a word. And his [[disciples]] came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

[24] But he answered and said, <span style="color:red">'''I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'''</span>

[25] Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

[26] But he answered and said, <span style="color:red">'''It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.'''</span>

[27] And she said, [[Truth]], Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' [[table]].

[28] Then Jesus answered and said unto her, <span style="color:red">'''O woman, great is thy [[faith]]: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.'''</span> And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

== Jesus Heals Many ==

[29] And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

[30] And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and <u>cast them down</u><Ref name="rhipto">{{4496}}</Ref>  at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

[31] Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

== Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand ==

[32] Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, <span style="color:red">'''I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.'''</span>

[33] And his [[disciples]] say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

[34] And Jesus saith unto them, <span style="color:red">'''How many loaves have ye?'''</span> And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

[35] And he [[commanded]]<Ref name="keleuo">{{2753}}</Ref> the multitude to sit down on the ground.

[36] And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

[37] And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

[38] And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

[39] And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala<Ref name="Magdala">{{3093}}</Ref><br>
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