Matthew 15
Jesus' Galilean ministry concludes with healings and a feeding.
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Matthew 15, the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, wraps up the account of Jesus’ work in Galilee. Its contents include a teaching on what truly defiles a person, the casting out of a demon from a Canaanite woman’s daughter, healings performed on a mountainside, and the miracle of feeding four thousand people.
Quick Facts
- Book
- Gospel of Matthew
- Section
- New Testament
- Key events
- Discourse on Defilement
- Exorcising the Canaanite woman's daughter
- Healing many on a mountain
- Feeding the 4000
- Locations
- Galilee, region of Tyre and Sidon, Sea of Galilee, mountain on eastern shore, Magdala/Magadan
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Locations and timing
Most events in this chapter occur in Galilee. Scribes and Pharisees come from Jerusalem, though the order of these groups varies between manuscript traditions. Theologian Johann Bengel argued that these events could not have taken place at the time of the Passover.
Jesus makes an excursion to the region of Tyre and Sidon, then returns to Galilee, walking beside the Sea of Galilee to a mountain on its eastern shore. Harold H. Buls notes that at this point Jesus is less than a year from his suffering and death. At the chapter's close, Jesus gets into a boat and comes to the region of Magdala or Magadan.
Some manuscripts give Magadan, while the King James Version translates it as 'the coasts of Magdala'. Heinrich Ewald thought the reference might be to Megiddo, but Heinrich Meyer criticized this because Megiddo is too far inland. The parallel passage in the Gospel of Mark gives a different place name, Dalmanutha, though a few manuscripts give Magdala or Magadan, possibly through assimilation with the Matthean text.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Matthew 15 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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