¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then ^(A)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹ since it enters not his heart ^(B)but his stomach, and is expelled?”^[a] (^(C)Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰ And he said, ^(D)“What comes out of a person is what defiles him. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^(E)murder, adultery, ²² coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^(F)sensuality, ^(G)envy, ^(H)slander, ^(I)pride, ^(J)foolishness. ^23 (K)All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith

²⁴ And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.^[b] And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. ²⁵ But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. ^26 (L)Now the woman was a ^(M)Gentile, ^(N)a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ And he said to her, “Let the children be ^(O)fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and ^(P)throw it to the dogs.” ²⁸ But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's ^(Q)crumbs.” ²⁹ And he said to her, “For this statement you may ^(R)go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.