16. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
17. When He had left the people and entered the house, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
18. He said to them, “Are you so without understanding also? Do you not know that anything from the outside that enters a man cannot defile him,
19. because it does not enter his heart, but into his stomach, and goes out into the sewer, thus purifying all foods?”
20. And He said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, murder,
22. theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride and foolishness.
23. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
24. From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and would have no one know it. Yet He could not be hidden.
25. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of Him, and came and fell at His feet.
26. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she begged Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27. Jesus said to her, “Let the children first be filled. For it is not fitting to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
28. She answered, “Yes, Lord. Yet the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29. Then He said to her, “For this answer, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30. When she had come to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.