17. And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.
18. And he said to them: "So, are you also without prudence? Do you not understand that everything entering to a man from outside is not able to pollute him?
19. For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods."
20. "But," he said "the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.
21. For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22. thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
23. All these evils procede from within and pollute a man."
24. And rising up, he went from there to the area of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a house, he intended no one to know about it, but he was not able to remain hidden.
25. For a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit, as soon as she heard about him, entered and fell prostrate at his feet.
26. For the woman was a Gentile, by birth a Syro-Phoenician. And she petitioned him, so that he would cast the demon from her daughter.