16. “Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked.
17. “Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.
18. But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.
19. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
20. These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
21. Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A Gentile woman who lived there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! For my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.”