11. But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—
12. then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13. thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
14. And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:
15. There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
17. And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
19. since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
20. And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
21. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
22. coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
23. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
24. And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.
25. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
26. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.