19. For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20. He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22. adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
23. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
24. Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret.
25. In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet.
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.