15. There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”
17. And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him?
19. For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine”—thus declaring all foods clean.
20. And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.
21. For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
22. adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.
23. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
24. And from there he set out and went to the region of Tyre. And when he entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and yet he was not able to escape notice.
25. But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, when she heard about him, came and fell down at his feet,
26. Now the woman was a Greek—a Syrophoenician by nationality—and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.
27. And he said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs!”
28. But she answered and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29. And he said to her, “Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter.”