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17. When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable.
18. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
19. since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
20. “But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles.
21. From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
22. adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
23. All these evils come from within and they defile.”
24. From that place he went off to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice.
25. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet.
26. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.