9. Their worship doesn't mean anything to me. They teach nothing but human rules.' " (Isaiah 29:13)
10. Jesus called the crowd to him. He said, "Listen and understand.
11. What goes into your mouth does not make you 'unclean.' It's what comes out of your mouth that makes you 'unclean.' "
12. Then the disciples came to him. They asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were angry when they heard this?"
13. Jesus replied, "There are plants that my Father in heaven has not planted. They will be pulled up by the roots.
14. Leave them. The Pharisees are blind guides. If a blind person leads another who is blind, both of them will fall into a pit."
15. Peter said, "Explain this to us."
16. "Don't you understand yet?" Jesus asked them.
17. "Don't you see? Everything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.
18. But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart. Those are the things that make you 'unclean.'
19. Evil thoughts come out of the heart. So do murder, adultery, and other sexual sins. And so do stealing, false witness, and telling lies about others.
20. Those are the things that make you 'unclean.' But eating without washing your hands does not make you 'unclean.' "
21. Jesus left Galilee and went to the area of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A woman from Canaan lived near Tyre and Sidon. She came to him and cried out, "Lord! Son of David! Have mercy on me! A demon controls my daughter. She is suffering terribly."
23. Jesus did not say a word. So his disciples came to him. They begged him, "Send her away. She keeps crying out after us."
24. Jesus answered, "I was sent only to the people of Israel. They are like lost sheep."