13. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
14. Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
15. There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”
17. Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18. He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
19. For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)
20. He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.
21. For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22. adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
23. All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
24. After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.
25. Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
26. The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27. He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”
28. She answered, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29. Then he said to her, “Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
30. She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
31. Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
32. They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
33. After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.