16. Jesus said, “Do you still have trouble understanding?
17. Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.
18. But the bad things people say with their mouth come from the way they think. And that’s what can make people wrong.
19. All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.
20. These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”
21. Jesus went from there to the area of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A Canaanite woman from that area came out and began shouting, “Lord, Son of David, please help me! My daughter has a demon inside her, and she is suffering very much.”
23. But Jesus did not answer her. So the followers came to him and said, “Tell her to go away. She keeps crying out and will not leave us alone.”
24. Jesus answered, “God sent me only to the lost people of Israel.”
25. Then the woman came over to Jesus and bowed before him. She said, “Lord, help me!”
26. He answered her with this saying: “It is not right to take the children’s bread and give it to the dogs.”
27. The woman said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the pieces of food that fall from their master’s table.”
28. Then Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith! You will get what you asked for.” And right then the woman’s daughter was healed.