15. Then Peter spoke up, "Explain this riddle to us."
16. Jesus said, "Don’t you understand yet?
17. Don’t you know that everything that goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer?
18. But what goes out of the mouth comes from the heart. And that’s what contaminates a person in God’s sight.
19. Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adultery, sexual sins, thefts, false testimonies, and insults.
20. These contaminate a person in God’s sight. But eating without washing hands doesn’t contaminate in God’s sight."
21. From there, Jesus went to the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A Canaanite woman from those territories came out and shouted, "Show me mercy, Son of David. My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession."
23. But he didn’t respond to her at all. His disciples came and urged him, "Send her away; she keeps shouting out after us."
24. Jesus replied, "I’ve been sent only to the lost sheep, the people of Israel."
25. But she knelt before him and said, "Lord, help me."
26. He replied, "It is not good to take the children’s bread and toss it to dogs."
27. She said, "Yes, Lord. But even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall off their masters’ table."
28. Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith. It will be just as you wish." And right then her daughter was healed.
29. Jesus moved on from there along the shore of the Galilee Sea. He went up a mountain and sat down.
30. Large crowds came to him, including those who were paralyzed, blind, injured, and unable to speak, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
31. So the crowd was amazed when they saw those who had been unable to speak talking, and the paralyzed cured, and the injured walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
32. Now Jesus called his disciples and said, "I feel sorry for the crowd because they have been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry for fear they won’t have enough strength to travel."