18. And He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside is unable to defile him,
19. because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purging all the foods?”
20. And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
21. “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders,
22. thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23. “All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man.”
24. And rising up from there He went to the borders of Tsor and Tsiḏon. And entering into a house He wished no one to know it, but it was impossible to be hidden.
25. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet.
26. Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27. And יהושע said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”
28. But she answering, said to Him, “Yea, Master, for even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
29. And He said to her, “Because of this word go, the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30. And having come into her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.