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thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this."
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Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
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there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."
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When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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He said to them, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
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since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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And he said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
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For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
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adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
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All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
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From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
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but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
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But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
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Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter."
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So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
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They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
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He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.