12. Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”
13. But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
14. Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15. Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
16. So Yeshua said, “Do you also still not understand?
17. Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
18. But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
19. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
20. These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
21. Yeshua went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22. Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
23. But he answered her not a word.His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
24. But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25. But she came and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
26. But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
27. But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”