Matthew 15:20-22

Christian Standard Bible

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

A Gentile Mother’s Faith

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 severely tormented by a demon.”^(D)