15. But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16. Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?
17. Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
18. But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.
19. For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20. These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
21. After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”
23. But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”
24. So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25. But she came and bowed down before him and said, “Lord, help me!”
26. “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.