11. But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or to his mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received from me is corban” (that is, a gift to God),
12. you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,
13. thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”
14. And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
15. There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”
17. And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him?
19. For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine”—thus declaring all foods clean.
20. And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.
21. For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
22. adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.
23. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
24. And from there he set out and went to the region of Tyre. And when he entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and yet he was not able to escape notice.
25. But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, when she heard about him, came and fell down at his feet,
26. Now the woman was a Greek—a Syrophoenician by nationality—and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.