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!”
Ta Ŋgaembaro Zutui ro
(Matayo 15:1-9)1 Rukä Parusii ro ndi miemba'bai Ota robe se kikyibe ni Yerusalema yasi ana otoyikalate Yesu re. 2 Ànya ndreyite anjioko rukä taeri'bai ndaro ro kayi ŋgaonya dri undi be; anjioko ànya joyi drí ànyaro kote oso se Parusii katabe beṛo lidri ri oyene ronye.
3 (Tana Parusii, ndi Yudai cini be, kayi oso ta ŋgaemba ro se ànya kuru yibe ni zutui ànyaro rigyesi 'do voro, ànya nyayi ŋga ko e'be gialo ànya joyi drí ànyaro lutu! 4 Ondro ànya kegoyite ni vo ŋgalogyero yasi, ànya nyàyi ŋga ko, e'be gialo ànya wäṛina andivo ànyaro käti. Ànya kayi oso ota azaka amba se arabe ànya kuruyibe iyi vo, oso ta kofo, lakaza, deŋbele ndi kitapara ojoro kadoro 'do ronye vo.) 5 Ago Parusii ndi miemba'bai Ota robe ejiyi Yesu te ekye: “Taeri'bai miro soyi ko ta ŋgaembaro drí ojoro se zutui amaro kembabe vo, oko nyayi ŋga gwo drí undiro be etaya?” 6 Yesu zatadri ànyaro te ekye: “Ta Yesaya ro orivoya ŋgye se nda käŋgube ta amiro ta! Ami orivoya miomba'bai, ndi oso se nda kegyibe ronye se ekye:
‘Lu atate ekye, lidri kwoi, kayi ma oro toto kala ànyaro si,
oko endaro ya ànyaro orivoya lozo ni mare si.
7 Mätu oye ànyaro märi kadona i'do,
tana ànya kayi ŋgaemba ota se lidri ko'babe ni si,
osoago ànya orivoya ota maro!’
8 “Mìna Ota Lu ro gwo tesi ago mìro gwo ŋgaemba lidri ro ayani.”
9 Ago Yesu ugu atate ekye: “Nyà Ota Lu ro ogana zo tauni amba si tana mìle ŋgaemba modo amiro ro eŋgane ayani. 10 Tana Musa atate ekye: ‘Miro täpi miro ndi endre miro be,’ ago, ‘nda se kabe täpi ndaro kode endre ndaro otrina beṛo ufune.’ 11 Oko nyà ŋgaemba mìkye ondro ka'do 'diaza orivoya ŋga aza be ozone täpi ndaro kode endre ndaro opaza, ka ata ekye: ‘Korebana yi’ (takacina anjioko, anya ni Lu ro), 12 alaga nda tezo täpi ndaro ndi endre ndaro be opavoya. 13 Ŋgaemba se nyàbe copena azii ri nonye ono ka ata Lu ro forona. Ago nyà ŋga amba azaka oso ono ronye oyena.”
Ŋgase Kabe Lidri O'ba Undiro
(Matayo 15:10-20)14 'Dooko Yesu zi lowa te kpa to'di ndare ago atate ànyari ekye: “Nyeri ta maro, ami cini, ago mìni tana. 15 Ŋgase ni tesi kabe oci lidri ya ni ko nda o'bane undiro. Oko ŋgase kabe efo tesi ni lidri yasi kani nda o'ba undiro.” 17 Ondro nda ke'be lowa te ago kocite zo ya oko, taeri'bai ndaro ejiyi nda te ata ono tazevona edrene. 18 Yesu atate ànyari ekye: “Ami kpa tauniako oso azii ronye. Mìni ta ono tazevona koya? Ŋgase ni tesi kabe oci lidri ya ni ko nda o'bane undiro, 19 tana ci ko ya ndaro ya oko cite kävuye ndaro ya ago 'dooko fote tesi ni lomvo yasi.” (Ta ono atana si, Yesu ekye ŋgaonya cini orivoya kado onyane.)
20 Ago nda ugu atate ekye: “Ŋgase kabe efo tesi ni lidri yasi kani nda o'ba undiro. 21 Tana ni ya yasi, ni ya lidri ro yasi, tausu undiro ka efo se kani nda o'ba ŋga koziro oyene ŋgatopane, 'diufune, 22 ronyi oyene ago kode toko drisi, a'done yagäru be, ago kani 'di o'ba ŋga cini se undiro dritoto, 'diodo, a'do undiro, yaoko, taiti kowero, driuŋgyi ndi amaama be oyene. 23 Ŋgase cini undiro kwoi ka efo ni ya lidri ro yasi ago kani nda o'ba undiro.”
Taoma Toko aza ro
(Matayo 15:21-28)24 'Dooko Yesu e'be vo ana te ago oyite wari se loto 'bakici Tura ro lomvo ana ya. Nda cite zo ya ago leko 'diaza alo ri unine ekye nda orivoya lau, oko nda ni kote yi da'done. 25 Toko aza, se ŋguti anyaro orivoya tori undiro be anya ya ana eri ta Yesu rote ago ikyite dori ndare ago 'dete pa ndaro ya. 26 Toko ana orivoya atrai ätite wari Foenesia roya Siria ya. Anya lo'barute Yesu ri demona isine tesi ni ŋguti anyaro yasi. 27 Oko Yesu zatadrite ekye: “Dri mi'ba ämäri ŋgàga ecane käti, ko kado ŋgaonya ŋgàga ro urune ago ovone kokyei ri.”
28 Anya zatadrite ekye: “'Desi, kokyei se tara'biza zele nyayi ŋgase ŋgàga ke'bebe 'do kpa!”
29 Ago Yesu atate anyari ekye: “Tana tadrioza miro ono ta, nyoyi kovole 'bäru, ndi endaro nyusuna demona fote ni ŋgutiŋwa miro yasi!”
30 Anya oyite 'bäru ago usu ŋgwa te u'duvoya kitapara dri; demona fote tesi ni anya yasi.
Yesu Ede Tuṛu aza te
31 'Dooko Yesu e'be wari Tura rote ago oyite Sidona yasi le Fofo Galilaya roya, ugu oyite liti wari Dekapolisi ro yasi. 32 Lidri azaka eziyi mano aza te ndare mano na ana tuṛu yi ago ni ata ko, ago ànya lo'barute Yesu ri drí ndaro o'bane nda lomvo. 33 Ago Yesu ru nda te iṛe pere, lozo ni lowa resi, 'ba driŋgwa ndaro te bi mano ana roya, vo to te ago do ladra mano ana rote. 34 'Dooko Yesu ndrevote kuru vo'buyakuru ya, lawate äfu, ago atate mano ana ri ekye: “Efefata” se takacina ni ekye “nya'do uŋbo!”
35 Dori mano ana eritate, ladra ndaro onjirute, ago nda eto atate teinye rritiako. 36 'Dooko Yesu tadri lidri rote ko tana itine 'diaza alo ri; oko nda tadri ànyaro ca mbara ko tana itine, caoko ànya itiyi tana te ndra. 37 Ago vona se cini keriyi tana be laroyi tawi. Tana nda ye ŋga cini te kado! Ànya ekye: “Nda 'ba tuṛu te taerine ago ataako'ba kpa atane.”