Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Matthew 15:18-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

18. But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.

19. For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

20. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

21. And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22. And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.

23. Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:

24. And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel.

25. But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.

26. Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

27. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.