20 These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”(A)

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21 When Jesus left there,(B) He withdrew to the area of Tyre and Sidon.(C) 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out,[a] “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:22 Other mss read and cried out to Him

20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

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