Matthew 15:23-39 ▼

23 And He did not answer her a word; and His disciples having come to Him, were asking Him, saying, “Let her away, because she cries after us”;

24 and He answering said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

25 And having come, she was worshiping Him, saying, “Lord, help me”;

26 and He answering said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast to the little dogs.”

27 And she said, “Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords’ table”;

28 then answering, Jesus said to her, “O woman, great [is] your faith, let it be to you as you will”; and her daughter was healed from that hour.

29 And having departed from there, Jesus came near to the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the mountain, He was sitting there,

30 and there came to Him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they cast them at the feet of Jesus, and He healed them,

31 so that the multitudes wondered, seeing mute ones speaking, maimed whole, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

32 And Jesus having called near His disciples, said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because now three days they continue with Me, and they do not have what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.”

33 And His disciples say to Him, “From where to us in a wilderness [will we get] so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?”

34 And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few little fishes.”

35 And He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the ground,

36 and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, He broke, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples [gave] to the multitude.

37 And they all ate, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full,

38 and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

39 And having let away the multitudes, He went into the boat, and came to the borders of Magdala.