16. And he said, “Are you also still without understanding?
17. Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
18. But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
19. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
20. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
21. And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
22. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”
23. But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”
24. He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”