18. Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?
19. It doesn’t go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet.” (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.)
20. He continued, “It’s what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.
21. Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,
22. adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, cursing, arrogance, and foolishness come from within a person.
23. All these evils come from within and make a person unclean.”
24. Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However, it couldn’t be kept a secret.
25. A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down.