Matta 15
1 Bu sırada Yeruşalim'den bazı Ferisiler ve din bilginleri İsa'ya gelip, “Öğrencilerin neden atalarımızın töresini çiğniyor?” diye sordular, “Yemekten önce ellerini yıkamıyorlar.”
Then [some] Pharisees and men who taught the [Jewish] laws came from Jerusalem [to talk to] Jesus. They said,
“(We think it is disgusting that your disciples disobey the traditions of our ancestors!/Why do your disciples disobey [what our ancestors wrote down and] our [elders taught us]?) [RHQ] They do not perform the proper ritual of washing their hands before they eat!”
3 İsa onlara şu karşılığı verdi: “Ya siz, neden töreniz uğruna Tanrı buyruğunu çiğniyorsunuz?
Jesus answered them, “(What is really disgusting is that you refuse to obey God’s commands [just] so that you can follow what your ancestors taught you!/Why do you refuse to obey what God commanded [people to do, just] so that you can follow your own traditions?) [RHQ]
4 Çünkü Tanrı şöyle buyurdu: ‘Annene babana saygı göstereceksin’; ‘Annesine ya da babasına söven kesinlikle öldürülecektir.’
God gave these [two] commands: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘People who speak evil about their father or mother must be executed.’
5 Ama siz, ‘Her kim anne ya da babasına, benden alacağın bütün yardım Tanrı'ya adanmıştır derse, artık babasına saygı göstermek zorunda değildir’ diyorsunuz. Böylelikle, töreniz uğruna Tanrı'nın sözünü geçersiz kılmış oluyorsunuz.
But you tell people, ‘You can say to your father or mother, “What I was going to give to you [to help provide for you], [I have now promised] to give [to God].”’
And if you do that, you think that you do not need to give anything to help your parents. In [that way], [by teaching people] your traditions, you disregard what God commanded.
7 Ey ikiyüzlüler! Yeşaya'nın sizinle ilgili şu peygamberlik sözü ne kadar yerindedir: ‘Bu halk dudaklarıyla beni sayar, Ama yürekleri benden uzak.
You only pretend to be good! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you [also when he quoted what God said about your ancestors. God said],
‘These people talk [as if they] honor me [MTY], but they do not think about honoring me at all [MET].
9 Bana boşuna taparlar. Çünkü öğrettikleri, sadece insan buyruklarıdır.’”
It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up [as if I myself had commanded it].’”
10 İsa, halkı yanına çağırıp onlara, “Dinleyin ve şunu belleyin” dedi.
Then Jesus [again] summoned the crowd to come [nearer] to him. Then he said to them, “Listen to [what I am about to tell you], and [try to] understand it.
11 “Ağızdan giren şey insanı kirletmez. İnsanı kirleten ağızdan çıkandır.”
Nothing that a person puts into his mouth [to eat] causes [God to consider] that person to be unacceptable. Instead, it is [the words] that come out of people’s mouths [SYN] that cause [God to reject them].”
12 Bu sırada öğrencileri O'na gelip, “Biliyor musun?” dediler, “Ferisiler bu sözü duyunca gücendiler.”
Later we disciples went to Jesus and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees heard what you said, and as a result they felt offended [RHQ]?”
13 İsa şu karşılığı verdi: “Göksel Babam'ın dikmediği her fidan kökünden sökülecektir.
Then, [to teach us what God would do to the Pharisees], Jesus told [us this parable]: “My Father in heaven [will] get rid of all [those who teach things that are contrary to his truth, just like a farmer] gets rid of plants that he did not plant, by pulling them up along with their roots [MET].
14 Bırakın onları; onlar körlerin kör kılavuzlarıdır. Eğer kör köre kılavuzluk ederse, ikisi de çukura düşer.”
Do not pay any attention to [the Pharisees]. They [do not help people who do not know God’s truth] to [understand it, just like] blind guides [do not help] blind [people to perceive where they should go] [MET]. If a blind person [tries to] lead [another] blind person, they will both fall into a big hole [MET]. [Similarly, both the Pharisees and their disciples will end up in hell].” (questioned)
15 Petrus, “Bu benzetmeyi bize açıkla” dedi.
Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable [about what a person eats].”
16 “Siz de mi hâlâ anlamıyorsunuz?” diye sordu İsa.
He replied [to them], “(I am disappointed that even you, [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand!/Why is it that even you [who should understand what I teach], still do not understand?) [RHQ]
17 “Ağza giren her şeyin mideye indiğini, oradan da helaya atıldığını bilmiyor musunuz?
(You ought to understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs, and later the refuse passes out of their [bodies]./Cannot you understand that all [food that people] eat enters their stomachs and later the refuse passes out [of their bodies]?) [RHQ] [Because food does not alter what we think and desire, what we eat does not cause God to consider that we are unacceptable to him].
18 Ne var ki ağızdan çıkan, yürekten kaynaklanır. İnsanı kirleten de budur.
[You should know that] what comes out of [people’s] mouths, [meaning everything that they say] [SYN], comes from their inner beings/hearts. Many of the [things that they say] cause [God to consider] them to be unacceptable [to him].
19 Çünkü kötü düşünceler, cinayet, zina, fuhuş, hırsızlık, yalan yere tanıklık ve iftira hep yürekten kaynaklanır.
It is people’s innermost beings that [cause them] to think things that are evil, to murder people, to [commit] adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about [others].
20 İnsanı kirleten bunlardır. Yıkanmamış ellerle yemek yemek insanı kirletmez.”
It is these actions that cause [God to consider] people to be unacceptable [to him]. To eat with unwashed hands does not cause [God to consider] people unacceptable to him.”
21 İsa oradan ayrılıp Sur ve Sayda bölgesine geçti.
After Jesus [took us and] left [Galilee district], we went into the region [where the cities of] Tyre and Sidon [are located].
22 O yöreden Kenanlı bir kadın İsa'ya gelip, “Ya Rab, ey Davut Oğlu, halime acı! Kızım cine tutuldu, çok kötü durumda” diye feryat etti.
A woman [from the group of people called] Canaanites who live in that region came [to the place where Jesus was staying]. She kept shouting [to him], “Lord, you are the descendant of [King] David, [you are the Messiah!] Have pity on me [and my daughter!] She is suffering very much because a demon controls her.”
23 İsa kadına hiçbir karşılık vermedi. Öğrencileri yaklaşıp, “Sal şunu, gitsin!” diye rica ettiler. “Arkamızdan bağırıp duruyor.”
But Jesus did not answer her at all. [We] disciples came to him, and [knowing that the woman was not a Jew], we said to him, “Tell her to leave, because she keeps [bothering us] by yelling behind us!”
24 İsa, “Ben yalnız İsrail halkının kaybolmuş koyunlarına gönderildim” diye yanıtladı.
But Jesus said [to her], “I have been sent {[God] has sent me} to [help] only the Israelite people [at this time] [SYN]. [They are like] sheep that have gotten lost [MET] [because they do not know the way to heaven].”
25 Kadın ise yaklaşıp, “Ya Rab, bana yardım et!” diyerek O'nun önünde yere kapandı.
But she came [closer] to Jesus and knelt down in front of him [to worship him]. She pled, “Lord/Sir, help me!”
26 İsa ona, “Çocukların ekmeğini alıp köpeklere atmak doğru değildir” dedi.
Then, [to suggest to her that he needed to help the Jews first and not the non-Jews, whom the Jews called dogs], he told her, “It is not good [for someone] to take food [that has been prepared for] the children and throw it to the [little] dogs.”
27 Kadın, “Haklısın, ya Rab” dedi. “Ama köpekler de efendilerinin sofrasından düşen kırıntıları yer.”
[But to show that she believed that non-Jews could also receive help from God], the woman said [to Jesus], “Lord/Sir, what you [say is] correct, but even the [little] dogs eat the crumbs that fall to the floor [when] their masters [sit at] their tables [and eat]!”
28 O zaman İsa ona şu karşılığı verdi: “Ey kadın, imanın büyük! Dilediğin gibi olsun.” Ve kadının kızı o saatte iyileşti.
Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, [because] you believe firmly [in me, I] will [heal your daughter] as you desire!” At that moment [the demon left] her daughter, [and she] became well.
29 İsa oradan ayrıldı, Celile Gölü'nün kıyısından geçerek dağa çıkıp oturdu.
After Jesus, [along with us disciples], departed from that area, we went [back] to Galilee Lake [and walked] along it. Then Jesus climbed the hill [near there] and sat down [to teach the people].
30 Yanına büyük bir kalabalık geldi. Beraberlerinde kötürüm, kör, çolak, dilsiz ve daha birçok hasta getirdiler. Hastaları O'nun ayaklarının dibine bıraktılar. O da onları iyileştirdi.
Crowds kept coming to him for the next two days and brought lame, crippled, and blind people, those who were unable to talk, and many others [who had various sicknesses]. They laid them in front of Jesus [so that he would heal them] [SYN]. And he healed them.
31 Halk, dilsizlerin konuştuğunu, çolakların iyileştiğini, körlerin gördüğünü, kötürümlerin yürüdüğünü görünce şaştı ve İsrail'in Tanrısı'nı yüceltti.
The crowd saw [him heal] people who could not talk, crippled people, lame people, and blind people, and they were amazed. They said, “Praise God [who rules over us who live in] Israel!”
32 İsa öğrencilerini yanına çağırıp, “Halka acıyorum” dedi. “Üç gündür yanımdalar, yiyecek hiçbir şeyleri yok. Onları aç aç evlerine göndermek istemiyorum, yolda bayılabilirler.”
Then Jesus called us disciples to him and said [to us], “This crowd [of people] has been with me for three days and have nothing [left] to eat. I feel sorry for them. I do not want to send them away [while they are still] hungry, [because if I did that], they might faint on the way [home].”
33 Öğrenciler kendisine, “Böyle ıssız bir yerde bu kadar kalabalığı doyuracak ekmeği nereden bulalım?” dediler.
We disciples said to him, “In this place where nobody lives, (we cannot possibly obtain enough food to feed such a large crowd!/how can we obtain a large enough amount of food to feed such a large crowd?) [RHQ]”
34 İsa, “Kaç ekmeğiniz var?” diye sordu. “Yedi ekmekle birkaç küçük balığımız var” dediler.
Jesus asked us, “How many small loaves do you have?” We said to him, “[We have] seven small loaves and a few [cooked] fish.”
35 Bunun üzerine İsa, halka yere oturmalarını buyurdu.
He told the people to sit on the ground.
36 Yedi ekmekle balıkları aldı, şükredip bunları böldü, öğrencilerine verdi. Onlar da halka dağıttılar.
Then he took the seven small loaves and the fish. After he thanked [God for them], he broke them [into pieces], and he kept giving [them] to us. Then we [kept distributing] them to the crowd.
37 Herkes yiyip doydu. Artakalan parçalardan yedi küfe dolusu topladılar.
[Because Jesus made the food multiply miraculously], all [those people] ate and had [plenty to] satisfy [them]. There were 4,000 men [who ate], but no [one counted] the women and the children [who also ate]. Then we [disciples] collected the pieces of food that were left over, and we filled seven large baskets [with them].
38 Yemek yiyenlerin sayısı, kadın ve çocuklar hariç, dört bin erkekti.
39 İsa, halkı evlerine gönderdikten sonra tekneye binip Magadan bölgesine geçti.
After Jesus dismissed the crowd, he, [along with us], got in the boat, and we sailed [around the lake] to the region called Magadan.
